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Fulbright Program makes awards to Richmond faculty member and students
A University faculty member and three students have received awards from the Fulbright Program and are studying or teaching abroad this year. Edward Larkin, assistant professor of English, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture on American studies and literature at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Tallinn, Estonia. Larkin is teaching two classes, on American studies and American immigrant literature, while in Estonia. He is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals traveling abroad to some 140 countries through the Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. “I was thrilled to win the award,” Larkin said, “and my family is delighted at the prospect of this grand adventure. It represents an interesting opportunity to teach American literature, history and culture in one of the newly independent Baltic States, which was formerly a part of the Soviet Union.” With three student grant recipients, Richmond is included among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright Awards for Students for 2004–05, according to the Fulbright Program. The University tied for second in the Master’s University category and ninth overall in the South. Among Southern schools, Richmond tied with Vanderbilt, Rice and Georgia and finished ahead of Davidson, Tulane, University of the South, Washington and Lee, and Virginia Tech, all represented with two grantees. Richmond’s grantees are Michael Goff, of Hockessin, Del., who received a Fulbright grant to Germany in teaching English as a foreign language; Kevin Lingerfelt, of Fairfax, Va., who received a Fulbright to Ukraine in information sciences/systems; and Ian Billard, of Charlotte, N.C., who received a grant to China in East Asian/Pacific/Australian studies. They are among approximately 1,100 students who left the United States this fall for more than 115 foreign countries as part of the Fulbright Student Program, the best-known source of overseas study grants in the country. Students from 550 different colleges or universities applied for the grants. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. |
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