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Faculty: Top in Fulbrights
| USF News
USF is a top producer of Fulbright scholars according to the Institute of International Education. The distinction, awarded for the 2011-2012 academic year, puts USF in the company of Ivy League powerhouses Harvard and Cornell.
Five USF faculty members received Fulbright scholar grantsto fund specific research in the United Kingdom, Germany, El Salvador and Bulgaria.
USF's 2011-2012 faculty Fulbright scholars are Heide Castañeda from the Department of Anthropology; Stefan Frisch, from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Thomas Bernard from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Sarah Kruse from the Department of Geology; and Wei Zhu from the Department of World Languages.
Though the top producers list includes only USF faculty in Tampa, Ella Schmidt, from the Department of Anthropology, Criminology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at USF St. Petersburg, also received a 2011-12 Fulbright scholarship.