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Three University of Montana Faculty Members Receive Fulbright Scholar Awards
Regents Professor William Woessner and Professors Michael DeGrandpre and James Gannon are the University of Montana’s newest Fulbright Scholars.
The three UM faculty members received Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2010-11 academic year. They join 1,200 experts from the United States who are traveling abroad this year on the U.S. government’s flagship academic exchange program, designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those in other countries.
Woessner will be a visiting professor of natural science teaching, conducting research in groundwater modeling and hydrogeological field techniques in a newly established research and teaching institute, NAWI Graz, Austria. The institute is a cooperative program in the fields of chemistry, technical and molecular biosciences, mathematics, and geosciences that links research and graduate programs at the Karl-Franzens University and the Technical University of Graz.
DeGrandpre will work with scientists at the Universidad de Concepción to study the uptake and release of carbon dioxide by the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean coast. He also will teach a course titled The Ocean Carbon Cycle during the university’s Austral Summer Institute. Students from South America and around the world attend the one-week intensive courses, held on the Universidad de Concepción campus.
Gannon will spend six months on the island of Mauritius, where he will join an international group researching the prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in the local food supply. Campylobacter is a bacterium and is the No. 1 food pathogen in the world at this time.
This year 850 foreign scholars also received Fulbright awards at U.S. campuses through the program. Since 1947, 52,000 scholars and professionals have received Fulbright awards.
The competition for 2012-13 Fulbright Scholar grants will open Feb. 1, 2011. More information is available online at http://www.cies.org .
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