Five UF professors are among 800 people in the country who have been named Fulbright scholars for 2007-2008, allowing them to teach and study in foreign countries, according to a UF news release.
UF Provost Janie Fouke said she was impressed that several of the hundreds of chosen recipients were UF professors.
"It's a great honor," Fouke said. "They're symbols of the fact that folks at UF see themselves on a larger stage than just the Gainesville stage."
The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad every year to lecture and conduct research, according to its Web site. Last year, eight of 800 U.S. Fulbright scholars were UF professors, according to the site.
Leslie Anderson, a political science professor, will conduct research and lecture about executive and legislative power in new democracies for four months in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marilyn Thomas-Houston, an anthropology and African-American studies professor, is studying black migration in Halifax, Canada.
Archaeology professor Michael Heckenberger studied and taught at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Mark Hostetler, an urban planning professor, will study in New Zealand.
Amy Bard, a professor of African and Asian languages and literature, has been in India since December and will return to UF in March.
Fouke said she was equally impressed that three foreign professors and researchers also chose UF as their 2007-2008 host university.
Iram Khan of the Pakistani Ministry of Industries is at UF researching poverty reduction.m
Bhaskaran Mohan Kumar was in Gainesville from September through December researching tropical home gardens. Kumar is the head of Kerala Agricultural University's college of forestry in India.
Jianmin Sun, a Chinese human resources professor, has been at UF since September studying the relationship between personality and job performance.
