Ms. A.E. Ryan, a local sculptor, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College of St. Kitts & Nevis during the 2006-2007 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board.

Ms. Ryan will effectively be the Artist in Residence with the Ministry of Education of St. Kitts & Nevis. Her main mission will be to help teachers learn how to integrate arts into their regular curricula. A.E. Ryan is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2006-2007 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.

The Fulbright Program, American’s flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the U.S. The are among more than 266,600 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers and university faculty and professionals who have participated in Fulbright exchange programs.

Recipients of Fulbright Scholar awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fiends. 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); Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.

For further information about the Fulbright Scholar Program, please contact Teresa Liao, communications specialist, Council for International Exchange of Scholars. Telephone: 202.686.7869 E-mail tliao@cies.iie.org Web site: www.cies.org