加斯金在富布赖特资助下出国旅行
February 16, 2010
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加斯金在富布赖特资助下出国旅行
VALDOSTA -- 美高梅博彩 Attorney Laverne Gaskins
will spend two weeks this March at Eszterházy Károly College in
Eger, Hungary, presenting a variety of lectures, many focused on
the intersection of race, gender and law.
Gaskins, who also teaches political science courses at vs上, will
travel on a 2010 Fulbright Grant, awarded through the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and
Cultural Affairs of the Department of State and the Council for
International Exchange of Scholars.
The law specialist is one of several faculty and professionals who
will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright 专家s
Program, which was created in 2000 to provide opportunities to
prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and
faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary,
academic institutions around the world.
As a representative of the Fulbright program, vs上 and the United
States, Gaskins will be called upon to demonstrate the qualities of
excellence and leadership that have been the hallmarks of this
respected international exchange program founded in 1946 by the
U.S. Government.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational
exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State,
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. During its 60 years of
existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have taught,
studied or conducted research abroad, and thousands of their
counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar
activities in the United States. More than 285,000 emerging leaders
in their professional fields have received Fulbright awards,
including individuals who later became heads of government, Nobel
Prize winners, and leaders in education, business, journalism, the
arts and other fields.
Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of
academic or professional achievement. Among thousands of prominent
Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning
economist; Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS); and Craig Barrett, Chairman of the
Board of Intel Corporation. Distinguished Fulbright 专家
participants include Heidi Hartmann, President and CEO, Institute
for Women's Policy Research, Percy R. Luney, Jr., Dean and
Professor, College of Law, Florida A&M University.
In addition to her duties as in-house counsel, Gaskins is actively
involved in the State Bar of Georgia’s Board of Governors, the
Valdosta Rotary and Florida State University’s College of Law
校友 Board. She serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of
College and University Law, and is a former president of Valdosta's
branch of the American Association of University Women and a fellow
of the American Bar Foundation. Gaskins has written several
articles that have appeared in national and state publications and
she was a 2008 Nominee for Woman of the Year sponsored by Valdosta
Junior Woman's Club. In 2009, she received the State Bar of
Georgia’s Justice Benham’s Award for 社区 Service.
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