CGS Professors Sam Hammer and Meg Tyler awarded Fulbrights
CGS is thrilled to share that Professors Sam Hammer and Meg Tyler have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for next year. One of the most prestigious awards programs world-wide, the Fulbright Scholarship Program sponsors U.S. and foreign participants for international educational exchanges across disciplines (e.g., the sciences, business, academia, public service, government, and the arts), with the goal to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Only 800 faculty nationwide receive this highly coveted award.
Sam Hammer, a professor in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at CGS, will be going to Sri Lanka to assist with development efforts, specifically intensive landscape planning, as part of the country’s peace and reconciliation process. Hammer will focus on landscapes in transition: contemporary urban landscapes and rural sustainable landscapes dating back to antiquity. He will be working with colleagues and students at the University of Moratuwa, located in the Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo.
Prof. Meg Tyler, a professor in the Division of Humanities and chair of the Institute for Irish Studies, will be a Fulbright Professor of Anglophone IrishLiterature and Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Tyler will teach two poetry courses, one undergraduate and one postgraduate. One of Tyler’s course will be called “American Influences on Contemporary Irish Poetry.” Tyler will also be conducting research, specifically completing a collection of essays, on Belfast Poet Michael Longley. Tyler will be in Northern Ireland from January to June 2016.