ASU faculty member receives
Fulbright Scholar Award to lecture in Syria

Randall G. Kesselring, professor of economics at Arkansas State University has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Dr. Kesselring will lecture on international trade at Tishreen University. He leaves early next week, and will complete his lectureship in June.

Before joining the ASU faculty in 1984, Kesselring earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma and taught at universities in Texas and Iowa. He teaches in the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences in the College of Business.

His research on various topics has been published in several academic publications, including the Business, Education, and Technology Journal, the Journal of Labor Research, Regional Science Perspectives, and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Within the past three years, he has presented papers at meetings of the Western Social Science Association, the American association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the International Atlantic Economic Conference. Kesselring also has been selected to serve as a referee for three scholarly publications.

Dr. Kesselring is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2002-2003 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 the people of 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 56 years of 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. They are among more than 250,000 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in one of the several Fulbright exchange programs.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among thousands of prominent Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.

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For further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Judy Pehrson, director of external relations, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Telephone: 202-686-4014.