Nazareth Student and Faculty Member Receive Prestigious Fulbright Grants

May 4, 2007

Nazareth College is proud to announce that the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Casey Powell of Newark, N.Y., to receive a 2007-08 Undergraduate Junior Fulbright award and Professor Scott Campbell, a resident of the city of Rochester, to receive a 2007-08 Graduate/Faculty Fulbright award.

Since 1988, Nazareth College has made a strong commitment to helping students and faculty receive Fulbright Grants. In the past 10 years, we have received 22 grants. Fulbright Program Undergraduate Advisor Professor Mark Madigan says, "It is a pleasure to work with Fulbright candidates such as Casey Powell. She is very smart, hard-working, diplomatic, and eager to share her knowledge with others. These same qualities will make her an outstanding teacher of English and cultural ambassador for the United States in Germany."

Casey Powell, a senior with a double major in German and Spanish, is traveling to a Länder (German state) of Lower Saxony (northwest) Germany where she will teach English to German students in the fall of 2007 and spring of 2008. When she returns to the United States, she plans to pursue her master's in Spanish and teach German and/or Spanish at the high school or university level.

"I am absolutely thrilled and honored to be given the opportunity to further my academic career through the Fulbright Scholarship," says Powell. "I think that this scholarship is not only wonderful for the personal and academic experience, but I feel that it is also necessary that eager young people are given opportunities like these to experience the world and exchange ideas inter-culturally." 

Powell would someday like to be involved in an exchange program that offers other young people the opportunity to travel and to appreciate other cultures, as she feels she was fortunate enough to experience.

Scott Campbell, assistant professor of philosophy, has received an award for the spring semester of 2008. He will teach courses in American philosophy at the University of Pannonia in Veszprem, Hungary. In 2005, Campbell received a Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad award to travel and study in Australia. He participated in the program's "Australia -- New Country, Old History" seminar and completed a curriculum project based on his experiences. The project, titled "On Justice and Human Nature in Aboriginal Australia," received a high commendation from the Australian American Fulbright Commission.

Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program's objective is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. Sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program is America's flagship international education exchange. Approximately 279,500 "Fulbrighters," 105,400 from the United States and 174,100 from other countries, have participated in the Program since its inception over fifty years ago.

Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is an independent co-educational college with a liberal arts and sciences core and strong professional programs. With more than 40 undergraduate majors and 25 areas of graduate study, the College's mission is to provide an education rooted in intellectual, ethical and aesthetic values. For more information on Nazareth College, please visit www.naz.edu.

 

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