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Fulbright Scholars
The count is in: Twenty-two Duke graduates
and graduate students were awarded 2005 J. William Fulbright Scholarships
to study abroad for a year and otherwise benefit from living in
a foreign culture.
The Fulbright program, the U.S. government's premier scholarship
program, was created by Congress in 1946 to foster understanding
among nations through educational and cultural exchanges.
"Duke is honored and delighted to have so many Fulbright recipients
for the 2005-06 academic year, especially since out of the close
to 7,000 persons who apply, only around 1,100 grants are given
to U.S. citizens to study overseas," says Darla Deardorff,
Duke's Fulbright adviser.
This year's Duke recipients include a Ph.D. candidate who will
travel to Hungary to study "The Recent Danube River Basin
Floods: Hungary's Response," as well as recent graduates who
will travel to Australia to study "Improving Music Perception
in Cochlear Implants Using Novel Stimulation Techniques," to
Estonia to study "National Identity and Post-Soviet Estonian
Economic Development," and to Botswana to study "Reproduction
and Identification of Male African Lions."
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