THREE GW FACULTY RECEIVE FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS; UNIVERSITY TO HOST 10 FOREIGN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS

WASHINGTON – The George Washington University is both the home to and destination of this year’s Fulbright Scholars.  Three GW professors have been honored as Fulbright Scholars and the University will host 10 visiting international Fulbright Scholars in the 2002-2003 academic year.  The Fulbright program awards 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries and approximately 800 foreign faculty and professionals each year.  The GW faculty Fulbright Scholars are:

Hernan Gustavo Abeledo – associate professor, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science.  The scholarship covers lecturing/research on polyhedral combinatorics and combinatorial optimization at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from January 2003 - March 2003.  

James I. Deutsch – adjunct professor, School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.  The scholarship covers lecturing on American Studies for the Ministry of Education in Oslo, Norway, from August 2002 - May 2003.

Steven M. Suranovic – associate professor, Department of Economics at The George Washington University.  The scholarship covers lecturing on preparing for China’s transition into the World Trade Organization at the Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, from September 2002 – February 2003.  

The 10 visiting Fulbright Scholars traveling to GW are: Najia Badykova, a consultant from Ashgabet, Turkmenustan; Tirth Khaniya, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal; Yu-li Liu, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan; Kamen Lozev, South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgeria; Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong; Hidemitsu Sakihama, Okinawa Times Corporation, Naha, Japan; Nilgun Sarp, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey; Adrian Andrew Tyson; Essex Police Station, Essex, United Kingdom; Hsin-Hua Wu, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan; and Xiuwen Zhao, People’s University of China, Beijing, China.  

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Over its 56 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. Overall, more than 250,000 people worldwide have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs. 

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