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Four Portland State University professors have been awarded grants by the U.S. Fulbright Scholars Program, receiving appointments in Canada, Argentina and Germany during 2004-2005.

Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Approximately 250,000 "Fulbrighters," 94,000 from the United States and 155,600 from other countries, have participated in the program since its inception, observing foreign political, economic and cultural institutions.

PSU Fulbright Scholar Grantees

John Hall, Professor, Department of Economics and Department of International Studies
John Hall will participate in the summer 2005 Fulbright German Studies Seminar. Hall will lecture and research at the Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) where he will research some of the economic challenges facing the eastern region of Germany since the start of reunification in 1990. In addition to lecturing students in Jena next summer, he will continue with his research on this and related topics.

John Corbett, Associate Professor, Public Administration
Under the U.S.-Canada program, John Corbett will serve as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of North American Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from January-May 2005. Part of that time will be invested in a project titled "Safeguarding the Sacred: Indigenous Communities and Resource Development," a study of tensions between First Nations communities and resource development issues in Canada. This work parallels earlier projects in Mexico. The Fulbright caps three decades of teaching and research on Canada, and will strengthen a current course on Canadian public policy currently offered by PSU's Public Administration Program. Corbett is only the second Portland State University professor to be offered the Fulbright Program Distinguished Professorship.

Georg Grathoff, Assistant Professor, Geology
Georg Grathoff has received a Fulbright award starting fall 2004 to the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquen in northern Patagonia, Argentina. His Lecturing/Research award is entitled "Environmental Mineralogy and Clay Mineralogy to Understand Surface Processes in the Neuquen Province, Argentina." He is teaching a course in Environmental Mineralogy and conducting research on therapeutic muds from the Caviahue volcano as well as on copper-ore deposits in the Neuquén province.

Ann Marie Fallon, Assistant Professor, University Studies
Ann Marie Fallon will be a junior lecturer in American Literature at the University of Trier in Germany for the 2004-05 academic year. While at Trier, Fallon will also be contributing to a new Center for American Studies and conducting research on American ex-patriot writers during the cold war.

About the Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 by Sen. J. William Fulbright as a vehicle for promoting "mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world." The Fulbright Program awards approximately 4,500 new grants annually. The Scholar Program provides grants for American college and university faculty, professionals and independent scholars to lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic disciplines in 140 countries. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (http://exchanges.state.gov), and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (www.cies.org), a private, non-profit organization.