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WMU faculty head to South Africa, Thailand this summer on Fulbright Specialist Awards
Two Western Michigan University faculty received Fulbright Specialist Awards to support overseas consulting and advocacy work this summer.

Faculty awarded prestigious Fulbright fellowships for global research and teaching opportunities
Dr. Stephen Covell, professor of world religions and cultures, traveled to Hitotsubashi University in Japan, and Dr. Chien-Juh Gu, professor of sociology, will travel to the University of Vienna in Austria.

Student awarded Critical Language Scholarship to study in Japan
Graduate student Joshua White received a full scholarship to become part of the U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages.