Christopher Newport University
Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
News Release - December 18, 2003
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Denise Waters
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Dr. Marshall H. Booker, Professor, Department of Management and Economics at Christopher Newport University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach Microeconomics and International Business at Azerbaijan State Economic University in Baku, Azerbaijan during the 2004 spring semester, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar Board.Booker is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2003-2004 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between people of the United State and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international education exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 56 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts for other countries have engaged in similar activities in the United States. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basic of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.