Wheaton Prof. Matthew Allen wins Fulbright
April 4, 2001
MATTHEW ALLEN RECEIVES FULBRIGHT AWARD
[Norton, Mass.][~]Prof. Matthew Allen of Wheaton College has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture and conduct research in Ireland, the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. He will lecture on jazz and popular music at the National University of Ireland, Cork, and conduct a research project on harmony in Irish music during the spring semester, 2002.
Allen, who teaches world music and ethnomusicology in Wheaton's music department, is one of approximately 2,000 US grantees that will travel abroad for the 2001-2002 academic year through the Fulbright 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 the peoples of the United States and the rest of the world.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State. For 55 years, Fulbright programs have exchanged nearly a quarter of a million people -- 88,000 Americans, who have studied, taught or researched abroad and more than 146,000 students, scholars and professionals from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright alumni are: Craig Barrett, President and CEO of Intel; Renee
Fleming, opera singer; John Lithgow, actor; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former US Senator; Robert Shaye, Founder and Chairman, New Line Cinema; and Muhammed Yunus, economist and Founder of the Grameen Bank.
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