ron repres of the their tl abroa, year. nmnnr -. ..-. .. prestii Progr: PSI Dahi, Gradu profes lculty travel and teach on Fulbright awards prepal Europs Dah Educa Univel tland State University will be ienfed In several different parts world as four professorstake Baching and research skills i durfngthe 1982-83academlc The four faculty members are j 800 American reclptents of jious Fulbright Exchange Im awards. J'S award reciprents are Victor acting assistantdean of ate Stud~esand Research and sor of History; John Longres, Sociology and Social Work; Grant Farr, Soc~ologya: nd Rudl Nussbaum. Physlcs Their desttnat~onsare as varied as their dlsclplines,wlth Dahl and Longres already in South America. Farr g for Pakistan,and Nussbaum 'lng to leave for western e. IS teach nq courses n tlona Aornm19lralon at the ~ ~oft y L ma In Per" from A Jf Foundi to h~re the pur and pr( Buslne C~IIPS Dahl John Langres August to December this year, as well as consultingwith the University on curriculum piannlng. Before he left for the 40-year-oldprlvate Institutionlocated below the equator, Dahl commented. "There seem to be a lot of similar~tiesbetween PSU and the University of Lima, both belng urban institut~onsand ne~thehr aving a long history." Whlle in South America, Dahl plans to conduct research on Yugoslav immigrants In Latln Amer~cancountries. Guayaquil, Ecuador is the temporary home of John Longres, who 1s teaching courses in research methods and social psychology at the Catholic University Ihere. Part of his time will be spent at the Catholic University In Quito. the capitai. During h ~ shalf-yearstay. Longres will also be examlnina the values and norms of the soGal work profession In Ecuador Rudi Nussbaurn Longres 1s no stranger to Spanish-speaklng countries, having worked on four separate occasions in Spain and taught at the University of Puetto Rico. "There is nothino that One of Farr's main oumoses In go~ngto Pesnarrar s to s%oy the probloms posea oy the arge ref~qee pop~lationfrom Afgnan~stan Rudi Nussbaum's orant will take himto West ~ermaa4nd~olknd. where he will conduct research in surface physics at three universities. His research interestsconcernthe study of the microscopic propenles of metals, about which he has written ? located In ach~ngin the ork at the dozens of anicles and spoken at universities around the worid. ' Nussbaum is PSU's Radlatlon Safety Offlcer and is known for hls soclai concerns wlth respect to nuclear arms, nuclear reactors,and the health effects of low-level rad~ation. The Fulbright Exchange Program offers a wide range of grants and scholarships to encourage lnternat~onalunderstand~ngby sponsoring exchanges of students and teachers around the world. fascinates me more than travel.' said Longres. "and I just feel verv comfortablein the Span world." Grant Farr will also bt familiar surroundings, te Department of Social W Unlversltyof Peshawar In Pakistan, just south of the Afghanistan border. Farr was a Peace Corps math teacher in Afghan~sfanfrom 1966to 1968 and a sociology professorat the University of Pahlavi In Iran from 1973 to 1975. "I'm happy to be golng back to that area." said Farr about his January to May trip to the east "YOU can't ask for a country which has been much less influenced by Western society, but wlth a very old and very rich cultureof its own." Grant Farr crocomputing center gains from second Chiles grant 2,000 grant from the Chiles microcomputers, printers. and Curncuium-planning,and to hire supplementaloutslde tunalng Ition of Portland will be used necessary turniture. The remainder permanentstaff for the center. necessaryto help Introduce business operatlonalstaff and finance of the money will be used to train This most recent Chiles students to high-technology chase of needed equipment faculty members to use the Foundationsupport marks a managerial tools, according to Dr. ]grams for the School of equipment for compos!ng, &fling, continuation of successfulefforts by Alan Raedels,assistant professorof ss Administration'sEarle A. recordkeeping, and the PSU Business School to obta~n management. MicrocomputingCenter at Psi- ~hel~t~~~hil~s~oundation Visiting scholars offer winter classes award marks the second stage in the planneddevelopment of the Three Fulbright scholars fmm noon to 1:15 p.m. language and CI microcomputingcenter. The first Southeastern Europe, who taught at "Beginning Macedonian"will be Vjera Balen-H stage involvedthe purchaseand the Unlversiiythis fall, will contlnue offered Tuesday and Thursdays, Radio-TelevisionLagreo, Yugoslavia. installationof the original eleven IBM to offer classes winter term under the 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. by Aleksandar w~lol ffer "Advanced seh-croa Personal Computers and related sponsorship of the PSU Central Dzukeski, a professorat the Kllment a languageand literaturem u m equipment necessary to open the European Studies Center. Ohridski Pedagogical Academy in Tuesday and Thursday evenlngr center's doors in April. 1982. Dr. loan Caprosu of the University Skopje. Yugosiavla. Dzukeski has fmm 630 to 8:45. Approximately $25.000 of the of lasi. Romania, will teach a history studled at the Unlvenity of Chicago Further informationmay be latest award Is earmarkedfor new wurse. "The Barbanan Invasionsof and is the author of numerous bwks obtalned hom the Central Europ - m n ~ - ~ e nsut ,ch as additional Europe," Tuesdays and Thursdays, and aRlcles about Macedonian Studies Center at 229-3916, tlan," ean
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