Three at UA Awarded Fulbrights

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Three University of Alabama faculty/staff members are among current campus recipients of Fulbright Scholar grants.

Dr. Richard Lomax, professor of education and applied statistics at UA, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Estonia during the 2003-2004 academic year. He will be teaching quantitative research methods, both introductory and multivariate statistics, in the department of psychology in Tallinn.

Dr. Marilyn Emplaincourt, associate director of Capstone International Programs, was awarded a Fulbright International Education Administrators Award to Korea, June 1-14, 2003. The recipient of numerous professional scholarships, she was an international education Fulbright delegate to Japan in 1986 and to Germany in 1990. In 1987, she was awarded a Malone Fellowship to Tunisia and was a Malone delegation leader to Jordan in 1988. She was a member of the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Seminar in Yugoslavia in 1989 and Pakistan in 1994.

Dr. Subha Chakraborti, UA professor of statistics, received an award and will conduct research at the University of Pretoria in South Africa during the spring 2004 semester. Chakraborti has published over 30 articles in a variety of journals. His research has been supported by grants from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Philips Corp.

These UA faculty/staff members are three of approximately 800 United States 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 Sen. 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 U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsors the Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because the 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; Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corp.