FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Pitzer College Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Scholar Award 
 
Claremont, Calif. (October 1, 2002) -- Paul Faulstich, associate professor of Environmental 
Studies at Pitzer College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to research 
"Ethnoecology: The Natural History of Place-Making" at The Australian National University in 
Canberra, Australia, during the 2002-03 academic year, according to the United States 
Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
 
Faulstich is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to 
some 140 countries 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 Unite States.  They are among more that 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 U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, 
Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and 
Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of 
Intel Corporation. 


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Founded in 1963, Pitzer College is a nationally ranked undergraduate college of the liberal arts 
and sciences. A member of The Claremont Colleges, Pitzer offers a distinctive approach to a 
liberal education by linking intellectual inquiry with interdisciplinary studies, cultural immersion, 
social responsibility and community involvement.

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