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Dance Professor To Travel to Finland with Fulbright Grant
 

Dr. Jill Green

GREENSBORO – Dr. Jill Green, associate professor of dance at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at the Theatre Academy of Finland during the 2003-2004 academic year. The announcement was made by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Green will teach qualitative research methods, body studies, and dance pedagogy. Additionally, she will conduct research, titled “Body Pedagogy in Higher Education Dance: An International Perspective.”

She earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and her M.A. from New York University.  She coordinates the B.S. program in Dance Education and teaches the department's courses in the body and somatics. Green formerly taught at The Ohio State University, New York University, and in the New York public schools.

Her work has been published in a number of national and international journals, including Dance Research Journal, Research in Dance Education,  Journal of Dance in Education, Arts and Learning, and Impulse, among others. She was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award in 1997 from the UNCG School of Health and Human Performance and was recognized for her outstanding program in education by The Ohio State University in 1992 with the Oberteuffer Award.

Green is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2003-2004 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. During its 57 years, the program has sent thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals abroad to study, teach or do research, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.
 
 

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