A Winston-Salem State University’s (WSSU) School of Health Sciences faculty member has received a Fulbright commission overseas, and the School plans to host a Fulbright Lecturer from offshore, for 2009, WSSU officials announced today.
Dr. Glenna Batson
Dr. Glenna Batson, associate professor of Physical Therapy (PT) at WSSU has been admitted to the U.S. Fulbright Commission Roster of Senior Specialists. The Senior Specialists position awarded Batson a five-year post as a guest academic lecturer and cultural ambassador in academic institutions worldwide, beginning in January 2009.
Batson leads the neuromuscular curriculum in the PT Program at WSSU and has been instrumental in the founding and evolution of dance science since the early 1980’s. Over the last three decades, she has integrated principles from kinesiology, neuroscience, motor learning, and mind-body disciplines into dance pedagogy.
Batson will spend eight weeks at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London (http://www.laban.org). The prestigious institution has invited Batson to teach in their dance science programs as part of an ongoing U.S./European initiative to promote dance wellness. Batson will teach at various levels of the Masters curriculum, consult with faculty on training principles, and mentor dance science students with their theses.
Professor Ann Maureen Phoya, Director of Nursing in the Ministry of Health in Lilongwe, Malawi, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at WSSU during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Phoya will serve as a scholar-in-residence in WSSU’s School of Health Sciences, where she will lecture on the globalization of nursing education.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 286,500 people – 108,160 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad, and 178,340 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States – with the opportunity to observe each others’ political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas, and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s in habitants. The Program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
Fulbright recipients are among over 40,000 individuals participating in the U.S. Department of State Exchange programs each year. For more than 60 years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs seeking to promote mutual understanding and respect among the people of the United States and other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is administered by the Council of International Exchange of Scholars.
