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Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Washington, DC (June 14, 2004) — Abraham (Abiyi) R. Ford, Professor at the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship grant to lecture at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia during the 2004-2005 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Professor Ford will be designing and establishing a mass media studies program at the Addis Ababa University. He will be one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar 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 people in the United States and other countries. The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 57 years in existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. Recipients of the Fulbright Scholar awards are selected based on academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. For further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Kirsten Bermingham, communications specialist, Council for International Exchange Scholars at 202-686-7869 or by email at kbermingham@cies.iie.org. Website: http://www.cies.org

Howard University, one of only 48 U.S. private Doctoral/Research - Extensive universities, comprises 12 schools and colleges. Founded in 1867, the University continues to attract the nation’s top students and produces more on-campus African-American PhDs than any other university in the world. Since 1998 the University has produced two Rhodes Scholars, a Truman Scholar, a Beinecke Scholar, six Fulbright Scholars and eleven Pickering Fellows. Founded in 1972, the University’s School of Communications is one of the most successful undergraduate schools, producing more African-Americans with baccalaureate degrees in communications than any other college or university in the world. For more information on Howard University, call 202-238-2330, or visit the University’s website at http://www.Howard.edu.