Four U of I Professors Receive Fulbright Awards to Conduct 研究 Abroad

莫斯科，爱达荷州—— Four University of Idaho professors have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2024-25 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

“The Fulbright Scholar Program is an outstanding way for our faculty to expand their research horizons into the international community,” Vice President for 研究 and Economic Development Chris Nomura said. “These programs allow them to not only engage in the global research enterprise, but also learn about other cultures while representing University of Idaho abroad.”

今年, U of I’s four Fulbright 365滚球官网 — the most since the university had five in 2019-20 — will be studying everything from sustainable jet fuel and Walt Whitman translations to extremist violence and river plants.

约翰Crepeau, professor of mechanical engineering, will be researching sustainable aviation fuels at the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, 奥地利. 在那里 is a large push to make aviation fuel more sustainable and to determine how these fuels affect different parts of a jet engine, and he will be working with students there to optimize the performance of these fuels on the total performance of the engines.

圣扎迦利Turpin, 英语副教授, will pursue research and teaching activities at Technische Universität Dortmund (TUD) in Dortmund, 德国. 他的项目, “Intercultural Approaches to Translating Walt Whitman,” he will be collaborating with TUD 365滚球官网 to study the evolving approaches (over the last century-plus) to translating American poet Walt Whitman’s dictionary-scouring verse — and specifically, to examine how translators handle his many word coinages, i.e., those unique words that the poet didn’t merely find or borrow but created specifically for his poetics, 比如“总统”,”“poemet,”“venerealee,”“fatherstuff,“咆哮”等等.

布莱恩狼, 犯罪学教授, will be affiliating with the Center for 研究 on Extremist Violence at the University of Oslo, 挪威. 在那里, he will pursue a project that examines the problem of extremist violence in advanced and developed democracies. Utilizing a comparative criminological analysis, Wolf will examine and contrast responses to extremist violence in Europe, 尤其是挪威. The results of this project will be used to assess the causes — and possible solutions — to extremist violence in Europe and North America.

Elowyn狙击兵, professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-director of the Center for Ecohydraulics 研究, will be studying how vegetation roots influence the strength of riverbanks, which is important for controlling river erosion during floods. She will be conducting laboratory experiments on root strength at the University of Trento in Italy and field measurements in a well-studied Italian river with a group of international collaborators.

More than 800 individuals teach or conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. 年度365滚球官网计划, 从1946年开始, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000名学生, 365滚球官网, 老师, artists and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad. Notable Fulbrighters include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89位普利策奖得主, 80位麦克阿瑟奖得主, 41 heads of state or government and thousands of leaders across the private, 公营及非牟利机构.

For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit fulbrightprogram.org.

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