UO Around the Globe Eleven Fulbright Scholars from the College of Arts and Sciences

Four College of Arts and Sciences faculty members and seven students received Fulbright awards for the current academic year. Among them, Zary Segall recently became the first professor from any Oregon university to earn a prestigious appointment to the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program. During the 2002-2003 school year, Segall will occupy the Fulbright-Stockholm Information Technology Chair in Wireless E-Commerce, a research and teaching post in Sweden. He will teach graduate courses in wearable computer technology at the Stolkholm School of Economics and the Royal Institute of Technology in Kista. He also will engage in research with Ericsson, Telia, IBM Sweden and venture capital firm Brainheart Capital, all Swedish companies that funded the grant. “My interest is in augmenting people with wireless mobile computing or ‘invisible technology’ to improve lives and help differently abled people,” says Segall, who along with fellow computer science professor Steve Fickas, heads the UO Wearable Computing Group. “This research also will connect the University of Oregon with industry and key academic leaders overseas.” The Fulbright program was proposed to the U.S. Congress in 1945 as a way to give grantees and their hosts the opportunity to gain a better understanding of each other’s institutions, cultures and societies. It promotes intercultural communication between the United States and other countries and encourages the American and international scholars to share information. Since 1950, 135 current UO faculty members have had Fulbright study and teaching opportunities. Joining that group this year is Sarah Klinghammer, a senior instructor with the UO American English Institute who left in September for Ankara, Turkey, to teach English as a foreign language at Bilkent University. Thomas Payne, research associate in the UO Department of Linguistics, also departed in September for Novosibirsk, Russia where he is researching and lecturing on the linguistic typology of Siberian languages. Allan Shanks, associate professor at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, traveled to Santiago, Chile, in October for a lecturing and research position at the Catholic University of Chile. He is teaching an introductory course in biological oceanography and researching the effects of certain types of waves on larval transport. Several College of Arts and Sciences students and recent graduates have also joined the ranks of Fulbright scholars. Zintars Beldavs, Jennifer Cameron, Anthony Clark, Elizabeth Cogan, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Joshua Morse and Matthew Well are working on research, artistic projects or course work abroad following their selection earlier as Fulbright Fellows for 2001-2002. Tom Mills, UO Fulbright Program adviser and director of the Office of International Programs, says that having seven students named Fulbright Fellows is a remarkable achievement for any university, and that it is even more remarkable for a moderate-sized, public university like Oregon. “In any given year,” he notes, “less than thirty universities in the entire country may claim this honor.” In terms of the number of applicants accepted in 2001, the University of Oregon edged out dozens of larger public and private universities, joining the ranks of schools such as Harvard, UCLA and the University of Michigan. “Fulbright awards to UO faculty and students distinguish our university as one of the leading public universities in the country and facilitate important intellectual exchanges between our scholars and researchers and those at leading institutions around the world,” says Joe Stone, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “Both the distinction and the exchanges are of tremendous value to the State of Oregon.”

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