Post Tagged with: "Fulbright"

Dr. Amritjit Singh gives a talk on “The Minority Psyche: Between South Asia and North America” on April 20 at Delhi University in India. Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Abstract: In my talk, I […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Oct. 15, 2014 Over 900 paleontologists gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Mendoza for a week-long gala of talks, discussions, short courses, workshops, field trips, and poster sessions. I am a sedimentologist (studying sediments and sedimentary rocks), but fossils are found in sedimentary rocks and […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Oct. 2, 2014 After finishing up the short course at the University of Buenos Aires, it was time to fly westward to Mendoza, which is situated at the foot of the Andes on the other side of Argentina. Here is the hometown of Dr. Cecilia […]

October 2014 Geological Sciences Newsletter Dr. Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch received a Fulbright Specialist Program grant to work with colleagues in Argentina for six weeks during Fall Semester 2014. She will teach a week-long short course on limnogeology at the University of Buenos Aires and then will study the Santa Clara de […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Sept. 26, 2014 The night before teaching the short course at the University of Buenos Aires, Dr. Cecilia Benavente and I went to Chinatown. It is only over two city blocks, but the entrance gateway is impressive. Chinatown was composed of shops with Chinese and […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Sept. 21, 2014 After preparing all the lectures for the week-long short course on limnogeology, Dr. Cecilia Benavente from the University of Buenos Aires and I took a tour of the city on a bus called “Buenos Aires BUS”. There are 25 bus stops of […]

By Elizabeth Gierlowski-­Kordesch Argentina Blog, Sept. 15, 2014 As a geology professor from Ohio University working in the field of limnogeology, I have been invited to Argentina through the Fulbright Specialist Program to teach students about the field of limnogeology—the study of sediments of modern lakes and the sedimentary record […]