By Steve Gilliam , University Relations
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Posted 1-29-07
GREENSBORO, NC – Faculty members Dr. Loren Schweninger, Dr. James Anderson and Dr. Adrian Wurr have received Fulbright Fellowships for travel and study during the 2006-07 year.
Of the 22 Fulbright Scholars selected from North Carolina institutions this year, UNCG and Duke had the highest number with three each. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Visit available the program’s website at http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/.
Anderson, an assistant professor of history, is spending the year at the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing doing research on “Monks and Merchants on the Gold and Silver Road: Trade and Pilgrimage Along Middle Period China's Southern Frontier.” He will return in July.
Schweninger, who is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor of History, is in Sweden for second semester as the Uppsala University Chair in American Studies. There he will lecture on “Race and Slavery in the United States,” and will return in May.
Wurr, an assistant professor of English, is off to Haiphong Private University in Vietnam, where he will lecture and work on a project titled “Teaching English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Development and Instruction.” His grant is for second semester and he will be back in July.
The UNCG trio is among approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries this year. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other nations.
It is America’s flagship international educational exchange program and is sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Under its auspices, more than 250,000 U.S. faculty and professionals have gone abroad to study, teach or do research, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S.
