The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board chose four UT staff and faculty members to receive awards from the Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program.
The four selected included postdoctoral fellow Julia York, professors Tia Madkins and Hannah Williams and South Asian studies librarian Mary Rader. They will each receive resources outlined by their respective awards to continue to work on their projects and research internationally. The program offers more than 400 awards each year in more than 135 countries.
York, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience, will travel to Chile with the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia and the Chilean Antarctic Expedition to conduct research on the evolution of temperature sensation in groups of Antarctic fish and fish around the Chilean coastal waters. Her planned research period spans November 2023 to…
