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The following are examples of the many
ways campuses, communities and Visiting
Scholars have benefited from the Occasional
Lecturer Program:
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Assem Faress
Associate professor, University of Aleppo, Syria
Discipline: language and literature (non-U.S.)
Research: American and Arabic Literature: Components and Vision
Host: Ohio State University—Columbus, Columbus, OH
September 2005-June 2006 |
I was fortunate to be granted a Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant for nine months in 2005-2006.  Full Story
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Alan Forghani
Scientist, Australian Center for Remote Sensing, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Discipline: Engineering
Lecturing/Research: Building the Capability to Develop a Land Cover Classification Framework for Risk Assessment Modeling From Multi-Sensor Satellite Imagery
Host: University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, California
October – November 2006 |
The Fire Sciences Laboratory (FireLab) of the U.S. Department of Forests and Fire Center of University of Montana invited Alan Forghani, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar hosted at Geographic Information Science Center of the University of California Berkeley. Full Story
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Prema
Kandaka Subba Rao
Lecturer, All India
Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore,
India
Research: Prevention of Language-Based
Learning Disabilities
Host: University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA and University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
September 2005 - June 2006 |
The Occasional Lecturer Program enriches the already multifaceted opportunity for development of the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program by helping the scholar reflect on his/her own country, personal research and teaching experience, as well as allowing him/her to work in a broader perspective. Full Story
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Marcos
A. Pedlowski
Associate Professor, Center
of Human Sciences, Northern Fluminense State
University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lecturing: Applied Research Design,
Global Environmental Governance and Land
Reform in Latin America
Host: Fairfield University, Fairfield,
CT
August 2005 - June 2006 |
As a Fulbright Scholar at Fairfield University in Connecticut, I was invited to visit two additional U.S. institutions through Fulbright's Occasional Lecturer Program. Full Story
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Jau-Hwang
Wang
Professor, Department of Information
Management, Central Police University, Taiwan
Research: Developing Cyberspace Crime
Lead Searching and Evidence Discovering
Techniques
Host: Department of Management Information
Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona
August 2005-February 2006 |
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Jau-Hwang Wang conducted research at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) in the Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona. Full Story
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Hanna
Maria Mamzer
Assistant Professor, Department
of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poland
Research: Corporeal Transgression
in Contemporary Culture: The Body and Representation
in Communication
Host: Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey-New Brunswick, New Brunswick,
NJ
January 2005-January 2006 |
I received an invitation to visit Stanford University as an Occasional Lecturer from Ewa Domanska (Ph.D.), a historian and former Fulbrighter and Kosciuszko Foundation grantee. Full Story
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Xiuping
Hong
Professor, Department of Philosophy
and Religion, Nanjing University, Nanjing,
China
Research: Chinese Philosophy and
Religion Meet With Christian Culture in
the United States
Host: Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA
September 2004-August 2005 |
It was a great honor to obtain the Occasional Lecturer Program award. My OLP trip gave me an unforgettably grand experience. Full Story
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Guowen
Huang
Professor and Dean, Department
of English, School of Foreign Languages,
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Research: Americans' Interpretations
of Ancient Chinese Poems: A Functional Linguistic
Approach
Host: Stanford University, Stanford,
CA
September 2004-June 2005 |
I was at the Center for International Studies at University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas during April 11-13, 2005 as an Occasional Lecturer. Full Story
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Carmen
Monica Paunescu
Lecturer, Department
of Commodity Science and Quality Management,
Faculty of Commerce, Academy of Economic
Studies, Romania
Research: Tools and Techniques for
Quality Improvement in the Six Sigma Vision
Host: Loyola University New Orleans,
New Orleans, LA
August 2004-July 2005 |
As a Fulbright Scholar at Loyola University New Orleans I took the opportunity provided by the Occasional Lecturer Program to visit and give lectures at three other institutions including minority-serving institutions. Full Story
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Olga
Ouchakova
Associate Professor, Department
of Foreign Literature, Tyumen State University,
Russia
Research: T.S. Eliot and Russian
Culture: Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communications
Host: Grand Valley State University,
Allendale, Michigan
January 2003-June 2003 |
During her occasional lecturing visits to the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Dr. Olga Ouchakova spoke... Full Story
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Krishnan
Rajam
Professor, Department of Primary
Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Malaya, Malaysia
Lecturing/Research: An Assessment
of Injury Prevention Policies in Asia and
Future Directions
Host: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland
November 2002-February 2003 |
Dr. Krishnan Rajam, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Malaysia, was affiliated with the... Full Story
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Mukhammadzakhrab
Ismanov
Professor, Department of Agricultural
Engineering, Tashkent State Technical University,
Uzbekistan
Research: Cotton Production: The
Movement, Organization, and Societal Status
of U.S. Cotton Farmers
Host: Arkansas State University-Main
Campus, State University, Arkansas
October 2002-July 2003 |
Dr. Mukhammadzakhrab Ismanov is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at... Full Story
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Rachida
El-Diwani
Professor, Department of
French Language and Literature, Faculty
of Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
Lecturing: Understanding the Islamic
World: Art, Ethnicity, Gender, Mythology
and Philosophy
Host: Chatham College, Pittsburgh
University, Pennsylvania
August 2002-May 2003 |
Rachida El-Diwani, professor of comparative literature in the Department of French Language and Literature at Alexandria University in Cairo, Egypt, was affiliated for... Full Story
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education exchange is the most significant current
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mankind to the point, we would hope, that nations
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