Why Participate

My year in Finland offered me the opportunity to lecture to a variety of Finnish learned societies and to lecture at universities in Berlin, Prague, and Sofia, Bulgaria.  -- Stephen G. Rabe (2005-2006 Chair award participant).

My daughter's experiences in her Austrian Volksschule are alone worth the stay in Innsbruck," noted Nagurney. -- Anna Nagurney (2002 Chair award participant)

Lawson and his wife, Mary, an English professor who took an unpaid leave from their home institution to accompany him, also "took advantage of living in Europe by presenting papers at conferences in Finland and Sweden," he said. "It was immensely fulfilling and rewarding."-- Benjamin S. Lawson (2000-2001 Chair award participant)