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July 11, 2005

Boise State Professor Named Fulbright Scholar

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Marcy Newman, assistant professor of English at Boise State University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to study outside of the United States during the 2005-06 academic year. Newman will lecture and conduct research at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. Her research will focus on how Jewish and Palestinian children learn about one another in the United States and in Palestine and Israel.

The award is made by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which has 12 members appointed by the president of the United States. 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 140 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.
 

Contact: Teresa Liao, Fulbright Scholar Program, (202) 686-7869, tliao@cies.iie.org

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