Contact: Kristin K. Anderson, University Relations, (517) 353-8819, ander284@msu.edu

12/12/2005

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Seven faculty members from Michigan State University have been awarded Fulbright Scholar awards for the 2005-06 academic year.

The MSU faculty members are among the approximately 850 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries through the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Recipients of the Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, and have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

MSU faculty recipients are:

• Peter Bruce Berg, associate professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations in the College of Social Science. From December 2005 through June 2006 he will be researching the effect of flexible working time practices on Australian workers at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia.

• William Derman, professor in the Department of Anthropology in the College of Social Science. From January 2006 through June 2006 he will be researching and lecturing on rights-based approaches to international development and the Norwegian experience at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas, Norway.

• Catherine Theresa Dwyer, professor-in-residence in the MSU College of Law. From January 2006 through June 2006 she will be lecturing on international and comparative private business law at Kyrgyz State Academy of Law in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

• Stephen Lawrence Esquith, professor and chairperson in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Letters. Since September 2005 he has been lecturing and researching ethics and development and ethical issues in agricultural biotechnology at the University of Bamako in Bamako, Mali. His program runs through June 2006.

• Kenneth W. Harrow, professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Letters. Since October 2005 he has been lecturing and researching African American and African literature, the depth to surface of a new critical approach to African cinema at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. His program runs through August 2006.

• Patrick O’Donnell, professor and chairperson in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Letters. Since September 2005 he has been lecturing on American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in Nijmegen, Netherlands. His program runs through January 2006.
  
  
• Murari P. Suvedi, professor in the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resources Studies in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. From January 2006 through July 2006 he will be lecturing and researching on management of natural resources for sustainable development at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Fulbright program, introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, was established in 1946 to build a mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with additional funding provided by the participating governments and host institutions in the United States and abroad. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars is a private, nonprofit organization that manages the exchange.

For more information, visit the Council for International Exchange of Scholars Web site at www.cies.org