Contact: Kristin K. Anderson, University Relations, (517) 353-8819, ander284@msu.edu
10/11/2004
EAST LANSING, Mich. � Six faculty members and administrators from Michigan State University were awarded Fulbright Scholar awards during the 2004-2005 academic year.
The MSU faculty recipients were Patricia Croom, Reade Dornan, Michael Lawrence, Lawrence Martin, Sheila Maxwell and Scott Whiteford.
Croom is an applications and account manager for Administrative Information Services at MSU. She spent June and July of 2004 attending a seminar for the U.S.-Japan International Education Administrators Program where she visited various institutions in Japan.
Dornan, an associate professor in the Department of English, will spend March to July of 2005 at the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany. Dornan will be lecturing and researching on what Germany can tell American educators about reading engagement among adolescents and Germany�s results of the 2000 and 2003 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Studies in Reading.
Lawrence is a professor in the MSU College of Law. From February through July of 2005, he will lecture on law in China at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
Martin is a professor in the Department of Economics. From September of 2004 through February of 2005, he will conduct lectures on economics at the Krakow Academy of Economics in Krakow, Poland.
Maxwell, an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice, spent June through September of 2004 at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. There, she researched juvenile justice in the Philippines.
Whiteford is the director of the MSU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. From January 2005 through September 2005, he will research negotiating economic growth in a time of water scarcity at Autonomous University of Queretaro in Queretaro, Mexico.
The MSU faculty members are six of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries during 2004-2005 through the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, and have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
The Fulbright Program is America�s flagship international educational exchange activity and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Established in 1946 under congressional legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed �to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.�