Ukrainian Professor Visits UNCW as Fulbright Scholar
10/20/2004 9:57:29 AM
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Oct. 20, 2004
By Eugenié Roger, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. — Nadiya Kabachenko, associate professor of social sciences and social technologies at the School of Social Work, University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,” Kyiv, Ukraine, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant. She will conduct research at the University of North Carolina Wilmington on legal issues concerning homelessness during the 2004-05 academic year.
Kabachenko has a Ph.D. in philosophy, with her main field of research being social exclusion. “My life is separated into two main areas: sociology and social work,” said Kabachenko. She is researching systems of support and help for homeless people in the U.S. and Ukraine. In Ukraine, she teaches courses in research methods in social work, sociology for social workers, social work with elderly and qualitative research methods.
“The Fulbright Scholarship Program is a great opportunity for me. The Wilmington area is very nice, I’m delighted to be here and it’s a wonderful experience. I love the fact that I can communicate very easily with my faculty colleagues,” she said.
Kabachenko is one of approximately 800 outstanding foreign faculty and professionals which the Fulbright Scholar Program will bring to the U.S. to teach and do research. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
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.
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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