October 1, 2004

Two Boise State Professors Named FulBright Scholars

Ed McLuskie, a communication professor at Boise State University, and Margaret Mary Mulhern, an associate professor of elementary education, have each been granted a Fulbright Scholar grant to study outside of the United States during the 2004-05 academic year. McLuskie will teach a graduate seminar and offer lectures on the philosophy and sociology of the public sphere for democracy at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia. This is the second Fulbright award McLuskie has received — the first was to the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1997. Mulhern will lecture on teaching and learning language, literacy and culture at the Autonomous University of Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. The awards are made by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which has 12 members appointed by the president. Grants are made possible through funds appropriated annually by the United States Congress, as well as contributions from partner countries and the private sector. The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those in the approximately 150 countries currently participating in the program. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation. -30- Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, communications and marketing, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu