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Three Mines Faculty Selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards for 2024-2025
June 13, 2024 — Kevin Cash, an Associate Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering; Juan Lucena, a Professor in Engineering, Design, and Society and Director of the Humanitarian Engineering undergraduate program; and Anuj Chauhan, a Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering, have been selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
During his Fulbright year in Spain, Dr. Cash will develop open approaches for wide-field bioimaging and spectroscopy with world-class bioimaging researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He will also teach in the university’s Biomedical Engineering program. According to Dr. Cash, “I’m excited to be part of such a vibrant university and to partner with amazing researchers, teachers, and students.”
Dr. Lucena will be growing the international reputation and impact of Humanitarian Engineering @ Mines (HE-Mines) by developing Humanitarian Engineering-Colombia (HE-Colombia), an organizational initiative where faculty, students, community organizations and other strategic partners create international collaborations, faculty and student exchanges, projects, and community partnerships to bring engineering for sustainable community development (ESCD) to serve Colombia’s most vulnerable communities.
Dr. Chauhan will spend his Sabbatical at the Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, working with Dr. Jinkee Lee. Although he received the Fulbright award for this project, he also received support from the National Research Foundation of South Korea. According to Dr. Chauhan, “While I am grateful to the Fulbright Program for the support, I decided to decline the award due to overlap with the project funded by the National Research Foundation of South Korea.”
Colorado School of Mines has a strong record of faculty being selected for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Over the past 6 years, 17 faculty members have received this prestigious award.
Fulbright U.S. Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. Fulbright Scholars engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started abroad and laying the groundwork for forging future partnerships between institutions. Upon returning to their home countries, institutions, labs, and classrooms, they share their stories and often become active supporters of international exchange, inviting foreign scholars to campus and encouraging colleagues and students to go abroad.
Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided over 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges. Notable Fulbrighters include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 80 MacArthur Fellows, 41 heads of state or government, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Over 800 individuals teach or conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program annually. In addition, over 2,000 Fulbright U.S. Student Program participants—recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals—participate in study/research exchanges or as English teaching assistants in local schools abroad each year.
Fulbright is a program of the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
In the United States, the Institute of International Education implements the Fulbright U.S. Student and U.S. Scholar Programs on behalf of the U.S. Department of State. For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit https://fulbrightprogram.org.