2010 Fulbright recipients
The Fulbright Program is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. Read profiles of Virginia Tech's recipients of 2010-11 Fulbright grants below.
Division of Student Affairs chief of staff and director of administration receives Fulbright grant
Cynthia P. Bonner, chief of staff and director of administration for Virginia Tech's Division of Student Affairs, will spend two weeks during the 2010 fall semester in Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship for the United States-Germany International Education Administrators Program.
Geoscientist awarded Fulbright to study in France
A Fulbright grant to a Virginia Tech geosciences researcher will enable him to travel to France this fall to study fractured rock hydrogeology. Tom Burbey, associate professor of geosciences in the College of Science, will conduct research along with his French counterparts at a site in Ploemeur, France.
College of Natural Resources and Environment's Thomas R. Fox awarded Fulbright to Chile
Thomas R. Fox of Christiansburg, Va., professor of forestry in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for research and teaching at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Pamplin professor receives Fulbright grant, distinguished chair
Janine Hiller, professor of business law in the Pamplin College of Business, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant and the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair of International Public Law. She will spend the 2010 fall semester in Sweden, at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of International Human Rights Law at Lund University.
Biological sciences student awarded Fulbright to study tuberculosis in Africa
Bonnie Fairbanks, a graduate student in biological sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to pursue her research in Botswana studying tuberculosis in mongoose populations.
Graduate student awarded Fulbright grant
Elizabeth Prisley of Tampa, Fla., who will receive her master of arts in English this May from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.
Fulbright at Virginia Tech
The Office of International Research, Education, and Development coordinates activity for the Fulbright Program for faculty at Virginia Tech.
About the Fulbright Program
Congress established the Fulbright Program in 1946 under legislation introduced by then-Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.
Grant recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Scholarships are funded primarily by an annual appropriation to the U.S. Department of State, which sponsors the program. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations and foundations in foreign countries and in the U.S. also provide direct and indirect support.
The program operates in more than 155 countries.
