June 18, 1999
2 MORE KU STUDENTS WIN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS
LAWRENCE--Two more University of Kansas students have received Fulbright scholarships to study or conduct research abroad for the 1999-2000 academic year, including one of the first Fulbright scholarships to go to China.
In May, KU's Office of International Programs announced three Fulbright scholars. Altogether five KU students have been selected as Fulbright scholars for 1999-2000.
The newest scholarship winners are
- Nickolas D. Zaller, May 1999 graduate in microbiology and in East Asian languages and literatures, to study in China. The 1999-2000 academic year marks the first time Fulbright scholars have been admitted to China. Zaller is one of five students selected from more than 40 Fulbright applicants for study in China.
Zaller plans a career in international public health. In China, Zaller will conduct research with a public health agency studying a freshwater parasite responsible for schistosomiasis, an intestinal disease. He also plans to advance his Chinese language skills and
knowledge of Chinese culture.
Zaller is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Zaller, 3642 Oswego, Tulsa. He is a Booker T. Washington High School graduate.
- Karla Kral, a doctoral student in anthropology from Akron, Ohio, to study in Mexico. Kral will conduct a comparative ethnographic study of Mexican women's social and economic roles in creating and sustaining transnational communities in Chihuahua City, Mexico, and Garden City, Kan. This study builds on Kral's research for her master's thesis on the incorporation of Latino immigrants into rental housing in Garden City.
In Chihuahua City, Kral will gather data on such issues as maintaining kinships and cultural ties across national boundaries and the way women care for extended and immediate family members at home and abroad. Following an academic year in Mexico, she will spend an equivalent period in Garden City.
Kral resides at 907 Michigan, Apt. 1, in Lawrence.
Scholarship winners announced in May were:
- Paul Dunscomb, a doctoral student in history, from Ossining, N.Y., to study in Japan the political aspects of the Japanese occupation of Siberia from 1919 to 1922.
- Stacie M. Lightner, graduating senior from Garden City, to study organ performance in Germany.
- Lori Ann Mah, graduating senior in civil engineering from Topeka, to study reinforced concrete at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Since the Fulbright program was established more than 50 years ago, 349 KU students, including the two new grantees, have received this prestigious award.
The Fulbright Program was proposed to the U.S. Congress in 1945 by then-freshman Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. Since the program's inception, more than 83,000 American Fulbrighters have studied, taught or done research in 140 countries around the world, and more than 142,000 foreign citizens have come to the United States through Fulbright grants.
A full Fulbright grant covers round-trip travel, health insurance, maintenance, and tuition, if applicable, for nine to 10 months of study or research or both. KU's Office of International Programs coordinates the U.S. Fulbright Student Program and the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program for faculty.
Contact: Mary Jane Dunlap, University Relations, (785) 864-8853
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