Byung Lee, associate professor of communications, and Betty Morgan, associate professor of political science and public administration, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for lecture and research during the 2004-2005 academic year according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Lee is lecturing and doing research at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. His primary research topic is “The Koreans’ Adoption of the Internet.”
Morgan will lecture at Law University of Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania from February-July 2005. Her lecture topic is “A Public Administration Curriculum for 21st-Century Lithuania: Defending the Challenges, Capitalizing on the Opportunities in Public Service.”
Lee and Morgan are two of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who are traveling abroad to more than 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. William J. Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 58 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 United States. 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 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.