1/9/04

David M. Granger, 334/844-9999

AUBURN UNIVERSITY HOSTING TWO FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS

J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

AUBURN -- Auburn University is hosting two international Fulbright scholars for the 2003-04 academic year -- one from India and another from Mexico.

The visiting Fulbright scholars are Subhadra Channa, an associate professor of anthropology from the University of Delhi in Delhi, India, and Jose Francisco Louvier Hernandez, a doctoral candidate at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies' Materials Laboratory in Queretaro, Mexico.

While at Auburn, Channa is lecturing on gender studies from an Indian perspective and the Indian caste system in historical and contemporary perspectives. Louvier Hernandez is conducting research on supercritical fluid-based biopolymer nanoparticles for biomedical applications.

The late Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright established the Fulbright program in 1945 as a way to foster international cooperation in the post-World War II era.

Today, the State Department-sponsored program is the United States' premier international education exchange. Fulbright recipients -- both international students who study in the United States and U.S. students who study abroad -- are selected based on academic or professional achievement and extraordinary leadership in their fields.

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