Six Fulbright Scholars From Around the Globe Conduct Research at UC Davis

Six Fulbright Scholars from Russia, Europe and the Middle East are conducting research at the University of California, Davis, this year on topics from international farm-worker migration to water pollution. They are among about 750 international scholars who received Fulbright grants for research at U.S. colleges and universities in 1999-2000. The exchange program sent a similar number of U.S. faculty members and professionals for up to a year of study or teaching abroad. The Fulbright scholars at UC Davis this academic year come from Russia, Hungary, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Saudi Arabia. They are: * Valentina Prikhodko, a Russian researcher working in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources to develop ways of preventing irrigation-water contamination, soil degradation and other environmental problems. She comes from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Basic Biological Problems in Pushchino, near Moscow. * Judit Timar, a Hungarian scholar working in the Department of Human and Community Development comparing illegal immigration of farm workers from Romania into Hungary with Mexican immigration into California. She directs a research center for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in eastern Hungary. * Hans Hoen, a forest scientist from the Agricultural University of Norway, is conducting advanced studies of forest and natural-resource economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. * Thomas Randrup, a researcher and senior consultant from the Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute in Hoersholm, Denmark, who is working to quantify the benefits of urban forests. He is conducting his research at the U.S. Forest Service's Western Center for Urban Forest Research and Education, based at UC Davis. * Stenbjorn Styring, a biochemistry professor from Sweden's Lund University, who is using advanced imaging techniques at the chemistry department to study photosynthesis. * Ahmed Allusaimi, an assistant veterinary professor from King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia, who is conducting research at the veterinary school on cellular responses to mammary-gland infections in cows.

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