Twenty Cornell undergraduate and graduate students will travel abroad during the 2008-09 academic year through the Fulbright program, and another three students through Fulbright-Hays fellowships.

Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright program increases understanding between the United States and other countries through exchange of people, knowledge and skills. Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research abroad awards, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, support six to 12 months of research in a foreign country.

At Cornell both programs are administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The winners, their majors, project titles and host countries:

Fulbright awards:

• Michael Bobick, anthropology, "Sovereignty and Statehood in the Republic of Moldova," Moldova.
• John Bruno, sociology, "Surviving the Streets: Social Rehabilitation and Delinquency in Ecuador," Ecuador.
• Abdul Chaballout, human biology, "Health and Society, Telemedicine in the Middle East," Jordan.
• Nandita Garud, computational biology, "MicroRNAs in a Gene Regulatory Network Model," Denmark.
• Jared Glanz-Berger, Asian studies, "Effective Access: AIDS in China," China.
• Andrew Guess, information science, "Cognitive Studies, Solving the 'Hungarian Problem' in Romania's Mainstream Media," Romania.
• Amanda Guise, biology, chemistry, German: English teaching assistantship, Germany.
• Jennifer Hadden, government, "Contesting Climate Change in the European Union," European Union.
• Timothy Haupt, anthropology, Germanic studies, philosophy, "The Well Disciplined Meal," Germany.
• Matthew Hendren, civil engineering, "Urban Agriculture in Dry Lands: Expanding the Tunis's Water Supply," Tunisia.
• Caroline Hossein, international economics, public policy, law, political science, "Microfinance, Patronage and Politics: Inner-City Jamaica," Jamaica.
• Jessica Rae Levin, chemistry, Spanish, "New, Potentially Superconducting Materials Derived from YBCO," Spain.
• Amanda Magee, international agriculture, rural development: English teaching assistantship, Malaysia.
• Boris Mamlyuk, law, "The Russian Legal Tradition, International Law and Transition: a Critique," Russia.
• Michel Ohmer, biology, ecology, evolution, "Chytridiomycosis Transmission Modes in New Zealand Frogs: A Conservation Priority," New Zealand.
• Bethany Ojalehto, law, "Urban Refugee Children's Human Rights and Developmental Trajectories," Kenya.
• Amy Saltzman, government, development sociology, "Implications of Development Aid for Malawian Small Farm Diversification," Malawi.
• Anne Sargent, English: English teaching assistantship, Italy.
• Joshua Schlachet, history, Asian studies, "Food Culture and Marginality: The Making of Japanese National Identity," Japan.
• Daniel Smith, civil and environmental engineering, "Field Testing a Community Water Treatment Plant," Honduras.

Fulbright-Hays awards:

• Krista Capps, ecology, "The Ecological Impacts of Invasive Catfish in Southern Mexico," Mexico.
• Amanda Flaim, development sociology, "Education and Social Change in the Highlands of Northern Thailand," Thailand.
• Samson Lim, history, "Narratives of Violence, Technologies of Proof: Law and Society in Thailand from 1944-Present," Thailand.