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Seven Illinois faculty members awarded Fulbright Scholar Grants

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Seven members of the University of Illinois faculty have been awarded 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar grants.

Recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields, according to the Fulbright Scholar Program.

The U. of I. recipients join about 800 other Americans who have received the grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The U. of I. recipients and their projects:

Steven G. Anderson, a professor in the School of Social Work, will lecture about social policy and program development in rapidly transforming societies at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, from February to June.

Eyamba G. Bokamba, a professor of linguistics, has been researching a comprehensive reference grammar of Lingala, a Bantu language spoken in parts of central Africa, at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, since September. Bokamba will continue his project until February.

Sherban Lupu, a professor in the School of Music, has been lecturing on the mastery of virtuoso violin playing and conducting research on the folk music of Romania at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and the George Enescu University of Arts in Iasi, Romania, since October. He will continue through May.

Elizabeth Ann Oyler, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures, will conduct research on her project “The Road to the East: Traveling the Tokaido in Medieval Japanese Narrative and Drama” at the Japanese National Literature Instutute in Tokyo, from January to May.

Christopher J. Prom, assistant university archivist and a professor of library administration, has been studying practical methods to identify, preserve and provide access to electronic records at the University of Dundee in Scotland, since August. He will continue through June.

Jeffery R. Roesler, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been researching and lecturing on advances in concrete pavement design, analysis and materials, as well as on design, modeling and material requirements for thin concrete pavements at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, since August. He will continue through December.

Lawrence B. Schook, a professor of biomedical sciences, will hold a distinguished lectureship at the University of Salzburg in Austria, from March to July and lecture on the evolutionary and developmental genomics of host responsiveness and regeneration

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