November 10, 2009

Fulbright Scholars From Canada, Europe, and the Middle East to Study at UCSB

The Fulbright Scholar Program has awarded grants to seven researchers from Korea, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East to study at UC Santa Barbara during the 2009-10 academic year. They include Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru of Canada; Guillermo Rico Camps, Carlos Miguel Tamarit Degenhardt, and Javier Vidal Hurtado of Spain; Kyu Hyun Kim of Korea, Ruben Mirakyan of Armenia; and Kyung Hee Suh, also of Korea.

Cojocaru is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Guelph. She will be affiliated with the Department of Mathematics. Rico Camps, a professor in the political and social sciences department at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, will be a faculty associate in the Department of Political Science. Tamarit Degenhardt, a researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Complutense University of Madrid, will be affiliated with the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Hurtado, a researcher at the Water Institute at the University of Granada, will be affiliated with the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. Mirakyan, an associate professor in the department of Arabic Studies at Yerevan State University, will be affiliated with the Department of Religious Studies. Kim, a professor in the School of English at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, and Suh, a professor of English linguistics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, will be affiliated with the Department of Linguistics.

In addition to conducting research at UCSB, Cojocaru, who will hold the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, will also teach a mathematics course during winter quarter.

The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is America's flagship international educational exchange program. Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has sponsored approximately 294,000 American and foreign scholars. Recipients are selected based on academic or professional achievement as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

Issued: 11/10/09; Updated: 11/12/09

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