Newswise — Four members of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) community have been awarded Fulbright Scholarship grants. Approximately 1,000 U.S. faculty and professionals received the award to lecture and conduct research abroad, and a similar number of foreign scholars received awards to come to the United States.
Ilene Zuckerman, PharmD, PhD, chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, is spending several months in Thailand on a Fulbright Scholarship, while two foreign researchers are working as Fulbright visiting scholars at the University of Maryland School of Law and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Another School of Pharmacy faculty member, C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, has won a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant and will travel to Ireland in the spring.
Studies abroad are commonplace these days, but a Fulbright remains a prestigious award for scholars. In a letter to David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, president of UMB, Sabine O'Hara, PhD, executive director of the agency that helps administer the Fulbright Scholarships, mentioned "how important it is to internationalize U.S. campuses in order to prepare students for future success in a global world and marketplace."
The School of Pharmacy has enjoyed a working relationship with universities and medical centers in Thailand for 14 years, and Zuckerman has traveled there twice in recent years, a few weeks each time, mostly to lecture and meet with policy and university leaders. Her Fulbright Scholarship will allow her to lecture and conduct research on "Building a Global Drug Therapy and Aging Agenda" while at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "We will examine appropriateness of care, drug safety issues, and quality of drug prescribing by taking what we know about quality of care and drug use and apply it over there," she said.
Emmanuel Kasimbazi, PhD, LLM, former dean of the law school at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, is researching environmental law courses and curriculum development at the School of Law. He has consulted on environmental law for the World Bank, African Development Bank, and the United Nations Environmental Programme, among others.
Oliver Maddocks, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, England, is spending a year at the School of Medicine to research the role of enteropathic E. coli in the development of colon cancer.
In March, Mullins will travel for three weeks to the National University of Ireland at Galway, where he will help it develop a program in health technology assessment. He also will meet with government officials and deliver lectures at the university. Mullins, whose specialty is pharmacoeconomics, is associate director of the School of Pharmacy's Center on Drugs and Public Policy. Two years ago, he visited Uruguay's Universidad de Montevideo, where he helped that university develop a master's program in pharmacoeconomics.
O'Hara, of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, wrote in her letter to Ramsay that Fulbright Scholars "shape the interest and future direction of countless students. And scholars have a significant multiplier effect on campuses around the world."
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