Posted on February 10, 2004 at 10:40 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Lynda Harrison, Ph.D., professor and associate dean of nursing graduate programs with the School of Nursing at UAB, has been named a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, administered by the U.S. Department of State, provides funding for U.S. faculty and professionals to lecture and study abroad to establish and build relationships with institutions and individuals in other countries.

Harrison is teaching and conducting nursing research this year at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. Specifically, she is working with her peers there to develop nursing research courses and to develop guidelines for identifying nurses for advance studies in nursing research.

While Harrison visits the University of Chile in Santiago, UAB is hosting a scholar from South Africa. Rosemary Dorrington, senior lecturer with the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, is here studying the replication of tetraviruses, potentially lethal viruses that infect insects in South Africa.

Harrison and Dorrington are among approximately 1,600 international exchange Fulbright scholars named this year. Since the Fulbright Program was established 56 years ago, more than 250,000 scholars have participated in the program.

Scholars are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields of teaching and/or research. Scholars represent K-12 teachers, university faculty and non-academic professions. More information about the Fulbright Scholar Program is available on the Web at www.cies.org.