September 30, 2004

UCSB Chosen to Host Four Foreign Fulbright Scholars

Joan Magruder

The University of California, Santa Barbara has been selected to host four Fulbright Visiting Scholars for the 2004-2005 academic year.

They are among the approximately 800 outstanding foreign faculty and professionals the Fulbright Scholar Program will bring to the U.S. to teach and conduct research.

The scholars are Fawzya Abdullah M. AbuKhalid, a sociologist from Saudi Arabia; Abderrahmene Ben Mohamed Bouraoui, a pharmacologist from Tunisia; Beatriz Lora Maroto, a chemist from Spain, and Irina Zhulamanova, an independent consultant scholar from Kazakhstan.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Over its 58 years of existence, the Fulbright Program has sponsored more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, university faculty and professionals in studies abroad.

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