WSU to Host Five Visiting Fulbright Scholars This Semester

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has been selected to host five visiting Fulbright Scholars from foreign universities during the 2004-2005 school year.

Young Hoom Lee, an associate professor of economics at Hansung University in Seoul, Korea, arrived on the WSU campus in August and will remain in residence through the end of the year. While visiting, the Fulbright scholar will conduct research in stochastic frontiers and allocative and technical efficiency in National Basketball Association teams.

Ming Yu Cheng arrived on the Pullman campus in September from Multimedia University in Selangor, Malaysia, where the Fulbright scholar is the head of the economics unit of the Faculty of Management. Cheng, who will remain on campus through April 2005, will be conducting research into qualitative institutional, social, economic and technical growth modeling.

Arriving this month, Mohamed Ben Mohamed Larbi Cherif, a professor with the Department of Plant Protection and Post-Harvest Diseases with the National Institute of Agronomy in Tunis, Tunisia, will visit the WSU campus through April 2005. While here, he will conduct research on the ascochyta blight of chickpeas and pathogenic characterization, distribution of mating types and population structure of ascochyta rabiel in Tunisia and the Pacific Northwest.

Montri Kunphoommari, assistant professor with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, will visit the Pullman campus from November through April 2005. While here, the Fulbright scholar will conduct research into environmental policies and agrofood systems in the context of globalization.

On the Pullman campus from December through March 2005, Monica Ofelia Jacobsen, a senior researcher with the Institute of Virology, Center for Research in Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, National Institute of Farming Technology, Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be conducting research in the identification of promoters to drive high-level expression of exogenous genes in basbesia bovus merozoites.