UNCW professor receives Fulbright to study in Israel
10/20/2004 9:56:25 AM
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Oct. 20, 2004
By Eugenié Roger, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. — Joel J. Mintzes, a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Department of Biological Sciences, has received a Fulbright Scholarship for the fall semester 2004 to work in the Department of Science and Technology Education at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Mintzes is conducting research and teaching Ph.D. students in biology and environmental education.
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
Since 1946 the Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Its aims are to increase mutual understanding between the peoples from the U.S and from other countries. Over its 58 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.
Recipients of Fulbright awards ― both U.S. and foreign ― are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their field.
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