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Andaleeb earns second Fulbright gant

BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, will be host for a three-week visit in March by Syed Saad Andaleeb, professor of marketing at Penn State Erie. His travel and work in Dhaka is supported by a second Fulbright award, this time from the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. His name was placed on the roster of Fulbright Senior Specialists in 2002.

Previously Andaleeb received a Fulbright Scholarship that supported his teaching and research in Bangladesh during the 2003-2004 academic year. During that time he was affiliated with East West University, where he conducted research on Bangladesh’s health system to improve service delivery. As part of his award, he also conducted capacity-building workshops in research methodology with faculty from various universities to enhance local expertise in research; facilitate the generation of local knowledge; and strengthen theory development that is pertinent to the context of Bangladesh. He also worked as an adviser to the Health Economics Unit of the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and was involved in the Bangladesh Planning Commission, providing assistance in writing the education-sector paper to be integrated with the organization’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and the Millennium Development Goals.

As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Andaleeb will spend three weeks in March following up on work he began during 2003-2004. He plans to continue his instruction on research methodology for a group of 22 researchers and policy-makers. He also will lead seminars and workshops for faculty and consult with postsecondary administrators.

Bangladesh is a country of 130 million people in an area of 144,000 square kilometers -- an area about the size of Wisconsin. The Fulbright program is designed, in the words of the 1961 Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.”

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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