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Among
those grantees with shorter grants was Bahija Chaarani, whose
time spent at the University of Minnesota must have felt like
returning "home."
Currently a professor at the Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture in
Meknes, Morocco, the scholar received a doctorate degree in veterinary
medicine form the University of Minnesota in 1986. As a Visiting
Fulbright Scholar there more than a decade later, Chaarani, worked
with professor John Wheaton in the department of animal science.
Together, they researched methods for improving goat reproduction
in Morocco, a project of great importance to her country's economic
development. In recent years, decreased fertility in goats has
been a problem with severe consequences for village farmers in
Morocco, who depend upon goat reproduction as a family's primary
source of income.
"Her proposal to gain experience in hormone analysis is
of importance in the field of reproduction science," said
Dr. Donald W. Johnson, professor emeritus in the department of
clinical population science at the University of Minnesota. "This
more in-depth study of the [reproductive] problem and search for
[answers] could help solve the decreased fertility problem encountered
by goat farmers."
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