For Immediate Release December 2, 2004

For More Information Contact: Rich Schneider, 317-278-4564 rcschnei@iupui.edu

Fulbright Scholars Announced

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars has announced that four IUPUI faculty have been awarded a Fulbright scholar grant and IUPUI is hosting a visiting Fulbright scholar.

For over 50 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Founded in 1947, CIES is a private organization. It is a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE).

CIES annually recruits and sends nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries on its traditional program and brings 800 foreign faculty and professionals to the U.S.

IUPUI grant recipients are:

Frederick Bein, Department of Geography, who will lecture and conduct research in "Environmental Conservation and Geography, and Agricultural Adjustments to the Environment" in Mozambique;

Michael Kovach, Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, who will lecture and conduct research in media studies in Romania;

Karen Kovacik, Department of English, who will conduct research on "Bodies of Music, Bodies Like Machines: Translating Cycles of Metaphysical Poems by Katarzyna Borun and Krystyna Lars," Poland;

Mohamed Nalim, Department of Mechanical Engineering, who will lecture and conduct research in "Computer-Aided Design and Combustion Study of Small Internal-Combustion Engines to Reduce Hydrocarbon and Particulate Emissions" in Sri Lanka;

Sofija Micic is a visiting Fulbright scholar at IUPUI. She is with the Department for General Education Subjects, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, and is conducting research on contrastive pragmatic analysis of medical terms in English and Serbian. ###