UCI welcomes three visiting Fulbright scholars
UC Irvine professors Alison Brysk and Gene Tsudik have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants during the 2006-07 academic year.
Brysk, political science professor in the School of Social Sciences, will be the Visiting Chair in Global Governance at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada. At the center, she will research the role of multilateral networks of states that promote human rights in the global system. The research will support her comparative study "Global Good Samaritans," which compares the sources and success of human rights foreign policy efforts by Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Japan and South Africa. To conduct her research, Brysk will work with a team of international relations researchers, including former United Nations and Canadian officials, as well as the host institution for the Academic Council on the United Nations System.
Tsudik, professor of computer science and the associate dean for research and graduate studies in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, will be going to the University of Rome (aka La Sapienza) to conduct research in, and lecture on, computer and network privacy. In collaboration with Italian colleagues, he will develop a graduate course on the same subject and will give a series of lectures on a range of relevant research issues, such as Internet privacy, wireless network privacy and privacy aspects of radio frequency identification tags. He also will conduct privacy-related research with local collaborators and explore electronic privacy priorities and technologies in the European Community.
"As the country's flagship international educational exchange program, the Fulbright offers an opportunity for our faculty members to further strengthen the university's extraordinary bond with scholars around the world," said Michael Gottfredson, executive vice chancellor and provost. "Being selected a Fulbright scholar is a tremendous honor, and we congratulate this year's award recipients."
In addition, UCI is host to three Fulbright scholars. Daina Kainan, head of the Environmental Pollution Laboratory at Riga Technical University, Latvia, is a visiting researcher at the campus through the academic year; Michael Max Szurawitzki is a German studies postdoctoral fellow from Abu Academy University, Finland, who will be on campus from December through April; and Adriana Ruggiero, an adjunct researcher from National University of Comahue, Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina, who will be on campus next summer.
The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, with additional funding from participating governments and host institutions in the U.S. and abroad. The nation's premier academic exchange program, the program selects U.S. and foreign scholars on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstration of extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
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