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Dikembe Mutombo will be keynote speaker at the Fulbright Academy 2013 Summit in Montego Bay Jamaica, May 24-26. Roswell, Georgia (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 The Board of Directors of the Fulbright Academy announced today it will partner with the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation (DMF) on its 2013 Global Health Summit in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The organizations will work together in the future to contribute to malaria prevention efforts in the Congo. The DRC has one of the highest mortality rates for...
Dikembe Mutombo will be keynote speaker at the Fulbright Academy 2013 Summit in Montego Bay Jamaica and the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation will partner with the Academy at the 2016 Summit in Kinshasa, DRC. Roswell, Georgia (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 The Board of Directors of the Fulbright Academy announced today it will partner with the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation (DMF) on its 2016 Global Health Summit in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The organizations will work together to...
Dr. Ruth Weistheimer will speak on Human Sexuality at the Fulbright Academy Global Health Summit in Montego Bay, Jamaica in May. The Summit will bring together specialists from across the globe to discuss the the drivers of human health and health care. Kingston, Jamaica (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 The Board of Directors of the Fulbright Academy announced today that renowned psychosexual therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer will be the keynote speaker for its upcoming Global...
TROY, Mich., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael P. Levens, Ph.D., chair of marketing, information systems, and quantitative methods, and associate professor of marketing at Walsh College, has returned after completing a Fulbright Specialist Fellowship in Riga, Latvia, at the University College of Economics and Culture. While abroad, Dr. Levens conducted a course on academic research methods in business and social sciences for graduate students from January 27 through March 11,...
AMSTERDAM, November 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announces its collaboration with the Dutch division of the Fulbright Center, a bi-national non-profit organization focused on enhancing the collaboration between the United States and the Netherlands in science. The collaboration between Elsevier and the Dutch Fulbright Center aims to...
Recent Olin College graduate Steven Zhang will study alongside Professor Jiaping Wu, an expert in resource management, at Zhejiang University in one of the programs’ most competitive countries, China. Needham, MA (PRWEB) June 04, 2012 Steven Zhang, a recent graduate of Olin College, has been selected to receive a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship -- the largest U.S. international exchange program -- for study in one of the programs’ most competitive countries, China. Zhang, an electrical and...
Robert Geraci will study the connection between technology and meaning in India. Riverdale, NY (PRWEB) May 07, 2012 Robert Geraci, Ph.D., associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, was recently awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar grant to research the social study of artificial intelligence and robotics at the Indian Institute of Science in Banglore, India. His research will begin in December 2012 and end in April 2013. In his 2010 book "Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven...
CHICAGO, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Fulbright Program awarded overseas teaching opportunities for the next academic year to two women from North Park University, Chicago. Senior Karen Kelly was awarded an English Teaching Assistantship to teach in a secondary school in Andorra, a small European country between France and Spain. Nnenna Okore, associate professor and art department chair, was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and will teach and work closely on...
LONDON, November 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a world leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission today honor eight early career researchers in a range of academic disciplines at the 2011 UK Scopus Young Researcher Award [http://www.ukscopusawards.com ] ceremony. More than 80 university executives, policy makers, library directors and senior researchers will attend the award ceremony at the...
By Around Town LIZ OTERO Of the Journal Jenna Marie Armijo Kloeppel has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to teach and study abroad in Prague, Czech Republic. The scholarship was recently announced by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Kloeppel will live in Prague for a year, until July 2009. She will be working at the Aloys Klar Secondary School, a school for the visually and physically impaired, teaching English. Kloeppel...
