Three UW-Madison faculty members receive Fulbright grants

Three faculty members will teach and research abroad this academic year after being awarded 2004-05 Fulbright Scholar grants.

Michael Collins, a microbiology professor in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is spending August 2004 through January 2005 at Austral University of Chile in Valdivia, Chile. He is lecturing and continuing his research on Mycobacterium paratuberculosis as part of an effort to strengthen Chile’s animal health infrastructure for its growing dairy industry.

Cynthia Larence Haq, professor and director of the Department of Family Medicine, will research and talk about how to improve primary health care through family medicine. She will be at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda January through June 2005.

Robert Skloot, professor of theatre and drama, and Jewish studies, will hold a distinguished professorship in American Drama and Theater at the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, Netherlands, from January through May 2005. Previous Fulbright Awards his won funded professorships in Israel, Austria and Chile.

The Fulbright Program provides funds to allow nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to travel to some 140 countries in an effort to build understanding between nations. Recipients are selected on academic or professional achievement and extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

Through the 58-year-old program, seven scholars are teaching and researching this year at UW–Madison. They are:

• Meissa Fall, associate professor at the Earth Sciences Institute at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, Africa;
• Leonard Nedashkov, chief curator, Archaeological Museum, Kazan State University in Kazan, Russia;
• Wai-Fung Paul Poon, physiology professor, National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan;
• Sergiy Whcherbyna, supervisor, Department of Economics and Management at the Economics and Law Institute in Chernivtsi, Ukraine;
• Min-Chieh Tseng, executive director, Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders in Taipei, Taiwan;
• Baskara Tulus Wardaya, history professor, Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and
• Xinrong Zheng, education professor, Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China.