Vassar Professor Jill Schneiderman Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Jill Schneiderman of Poughkeepsie, professor of geology at Vassar College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at the University of West Indies during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Schneiderman will teach a course on gender and science and conduct research on environmental issues in Trinidad, particularly focusing on water resources.

Schneiderman is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2002-2003 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs sponsors the Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity. Over its 56

years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

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 Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.

For further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Judy Pehrson, director of external relations, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Telephone: 202-686-4014 E-mail: jpehrson@cies.iie.org Web site: www.cies.org

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This article was posted on Wednesday, August 14th, 2002.