The rankings, which was produced by the Institute of International Education and published in the Chronicle of Higher Education in October, compares the total number of Fulbright awards for each category of school—either bachelor’s, master’s or research institutions.
In the California State University system, only CSU Los Angeles produced more Fulbright faculty awards, while only CSU Sacramento edged out HSU for Fulbright student awards.
HSU’s Fulbright Recipients
Richard Engel, a Senior Research Engineer at the Schatz Energy Research Center, is among the three HSU faculty members participating in this year’s program. Fulbright funding will take the ’88 Environmental Resources Engineering alum to Universidad Don Bosco in El Salvador to lecture and develop curriculum on renewable energy and energy efficiency during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Professor Michael Eldridge, from HSU’s English and World Languages and Cultures departments, is currently working at McMaster University in Canada, where his work focuses on race, nation, and global culture in mid-century Canada.
Professor Armeda Reitzel from HSU’s Music and Communications departments will be traveling to Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University in Nicaragua in January to lecture on teaching English as a second language, curriculum development and teacher preparation.
Students in the program this year include Ranjan Hatch, a Biological Sciences major who will travel to Malaysia to serve as a university English assistant in addition to tutoring in math and biology.
Jorge Leyes Perez, Humboldt State’s other student Fulbright recipient, is currently serving in Madrid, Spain, where he’s involved with a public bi-lingual secondary school with students from grades seven through 10.
Founded in 1946 to encourage international educational and cultural exchange, Fulbright Scholarships are named after the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, a multilateralist who backed creation of the United Nations in 1945. He was chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1959 to 1974, the longest period in the panel’s history.
View the full listing of top Fulbright institutions at The Chronicle of Higher Education