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For Immediate Release

Written by: Anne C. Weissner, 260-481-6166

Media Contact: Jeanette Clausen, 260-481-6637

IPFW Prof Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

(Fort Wayne, Dec. 16, 2005) -- Bangalore Lingaraj, professor emeritus in the IPFW Department of Management and Marketing, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Mauritius in Reduit, Mauritius, through June 2006. The award is granted by the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Lingaraj is one of about 850 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries during the 2005-06 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 of the United States and other countries.

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.

The University of Mauritius opened in 1969 and currently has about 1,000 faculty and staff as well as about 6,000 students (approximately 70 are international students). It is a non-resident campus located in Reduit, a small city a few miles southeast of Port Louis, the capitol. It is a fully accredited four-year university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the schools of agriculture, engineering, law and management, science, and social studies and humanities.

The country itself, about 720 square miles, lies in the Indian Ocean more than 1,200 miles off the east coast of Africa and about 3,000 miles off the southern coast of India. About half the population of 1.2 million is of Indian origin. English and French are the principal languages. Now an elected democracy, Mauritius was a long-time colony of both Britain and France, but became independent from Great Britain in 1968 and became a republic in 1992.

For more information on the Fulbright Scholar program or IPFW’s participation, call 260-481-6637.

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