Monday, April 09, 2001

WILMINGTON, NC – Julian Boyce, a computer science major at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, received a prestigious Fulbright Award for academic study in Germany.

Boyce, the son of Philip and Rosita Boyce of Wilmington, is eligible to graduate in May. The Fulbright grant will fund an academic year of study at the Technical University in Munich from August through July 2002. Boyce said he plans to further his studies in computer science. Of particular interest is the development of graphical user interfaces, Internet technology, wireless computing and computer graphics, he said.

During his tenure at UNCW, Boyce began taking German classes in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. He participated in the UNCW Summer Program in Bremen and spent his junior year at the University of Karlsruhe on the North Carolina/Baden Wuerttemberg Exchange Program. A recipient of the 1999 Minority Academic Achievement and Student Leadership Awards, Boyce is secretary of the Association of Computing Machines and serves as a German language tutor.

Boyce is the third UNCW student awarded a Fulbright Grant. Jennifer Head, a 1997 graduate who majored in biological sciences and French, is completing her second year as a Fulbright scholar at the L’Universite de Liege in Belgium. Teresa Krebs, who earned a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish in 1998, received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Korea.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship educational exchange program, is sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, an independent foreign affairs agency within the executive branch of the U.S. government. Established in 1946 under Congressional legislation by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.”

The Fulbright Program competition for the 2002-03 academic year begins in May. UNCW juniors, seniors and graduate students interested in the program should attend an application workshop at 4 p.m., Monday, April 30, in the Randall Library Auditorium.

For more information, contact Julian Boyce at 910/762-7922 or Dr. Raymond Burt, associate dean of the UNCW College of Arts and Sciences and the university’s Fulbright Program adviser, at 910/962-3660.