MCC professor gets Fulbright Specialists Award

Mara Jevera Fulmer, professor and program coordinator in graphic design at Mott Community College, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists Project in Russia at the Yekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art during May, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship board.

Fulmer will be teaching a short course on cultural journalism, addressing the intersection of art and design and social and political issues.

Fulmer is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at postsecondary, academic institutions around the world.

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. During its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. More than 285,000 emerging leaders in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards, including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel Prize winners and leaders in education, business, journalism, the arts and other fields.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, chairman of the board of Intel Corporation.

Distinguished Fulbright Specialist participants include Mahmoud Ayoub, professor of religion at Temple University; Heidi Hartmann, president and CEO of the Institute for Women's Policy Research; Percy R. Luney Jr., dean and professor at Florida A&M University College of Law; and Emily Vargas-Barone, founder and executive director of the RISE Institute.

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