Fulbright Scholar grants have been awarded to three members of the Sacramento State faculty to lecture or conduct research overseas.
The Fulbright program sends about 1,000 teachers and other professionals abroad each year to pursue research in a variety of fields. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on academic merit and leadership potential.
Those chosen from California State University, Sacramento are:
-- Patrick G. Cannon, associate professor of government, who will lecture at the University of Kinshasa on economic reconstruction of post-conflict societies.
-- Thomas L. Decker, lecturer in the art department, to conduct research and lecture at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, on subjects such as cross-cultural influences of contemporary ceramic artists.
-- Susanne W. Lindgren, professor of biological sciences, will conduct research and lecture at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany. Her interest includes the cellular characterization of an E. coli "colibactin molecule" to determine its role in infection and disease.
Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez said the work of the three scholars exemplifies the university's growing international influence.
The Fulbright program was proposed in 1945 by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and was signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1946. Fulbright, according the program website, saw the international educational exchange as a way to promote "mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world."
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