Rutgers-New Brunswick Is a Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars
February 26, 2025
Rutgers University–New Brunswick has earned recognition as a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars by the U.S. Department of State, securing its place among the nation’s elite institutions for faculty and administrators selected for the program.
Six scholars from Rutgers–New Brunswick have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2024-2025 academic year for a range of projects throughout the world, as announced by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on Feb. 25.
Here are Rutgers-New Brunswick’s 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar recipients and their selected projects:
- Rebecca Davis, a professor with the School of Social Work, is teaching and researching global child welfare and protection and service-learning in social work education in Romania.
- Adam McCollum, an associate professor with the Department of Linguistics is in Kazakhstan researching local Turkic languages.
- Åsa Rennermalm, a professor with the Department of Geography, is studying climate change and Arctic resources as part of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. She will be based in Greenland this fall.
- Samah Selim, a professor with the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, is in Egypt writing a biography of Niqula al-Haddad.
- Olabode Ibironke, an associate professor with the Department of English, is in Nigeria at University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University.
- Ani Javian, an assistant professor with the Department of Dance was selected for her project on “Listening Inward, Moving Outward: Dance and Memory, Story, and Trauma.”
Reposted from Rutgers Global