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| USIEF to expand its reach in J&K through SMVDU | | | Early Times Report
Katra, Mar 31- United States India Educational Foundation (UISEF), which is responsible for administering the Fulbright Fellowship program in India, is holding a workshop to evolve strategies to increase representation from the underserved areas like Jammu and Kashmir. USIEF New Delhi has recently announced a new round of fellowships for 2010. This fellowship program which is one of the prestigious programs in the world is applicable to students, researchers, professionals and faculty members for study and research in the US. Fulbright program which is also one of the largest fellowship programs in the world has over 16200 fellows so far under its exchange program. In order to promote visibility of Fulbright program particularly in the underserved areas like Jammu and Kashmir, which had only 16 Fulbright fellows between 2001-08 compared to 203 from Delhi during the same period, USIEF is conducting this workshop. In this workshop over 40 Fulbright Campus Representatives and an equal number of Fulbright Alumni, apart from the representatives of USIEF and USAID, shall be participating. Out of all the 40 campus representatives, Dr. Sunil Kumar Wanchoo, Assistant Professor, Fulbright Campus Representative from SMVD University has been given an exclusive slot to make a presentation on ‘Challenges and Strategies’ in reaching out to educational institutions and society in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. As a part of USIEFs continued effort to recruit scholars from underserved areas Dr. Wanchoo’s presentation is expected to help USIEF to come up with a renewed effort for increasing the representation of Jammu and Kashmir in the prestigious Fulbright program.
USIEF has shown keen interest in the activities being undertaken by SMVD University for the promotion of education and awareness among the student community from different schools and colleges in last five years under the banner of National Science Day. This has resulted in a strong association between SMVD University and USIEF in last couple of years. USIEF had held its first outreach program in Jammu and Kashmir in SMVD University last year. As a part of continued effort in this direction USIEF had deputed Prof. V. K. Jindal, of Punjab University to deliver the Sir C V Raman Memorial public lecture on Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials on National Science Day- 2009.
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