Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Wilmington, N.C. - Todd Berliner, Associate Professor, Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema in Vietnam during the 2005-2006 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Berliner will teach American Cinema and assist with Film Studies program development in Vietnam.

Berliner is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2005-2006 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 58 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught, or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. They are among more than 265,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in Fulbright exchange programs.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel-Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.

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Fur further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Teresa Liao, communications specialist, Council for the Exchange of Scholars. Telephone: 202/686-8769.

Email: tliao@cies.iie.org Web site: www.cies.org.