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College of Charleston Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award September 13, 2002 David M. Kowal, Professor of Art History at the College of Charleston, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and research the University of S. Carlos, Guatemala during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Professor Kowal will teach a class on Spanish art, conduct a research seminar for faculty and engage in research on colonial architecture in Guatemala. He is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2002-2003 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William 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 56 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 U.S. They are among more that 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teaches 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 Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winner poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation. Professor Kowal can be reached at the Department of Art History at the College of Charleston at 843-953-8225 or by email kowald@cofc.edu. ### For further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Judy Pehrson, director of external relations, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Telephone: 202-686-4014 or email: jpehrson@cies.iie.org. Web site: www.cies.org Contact:Virginia Friedman |