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NEWS
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Environmental health director gets Fulbright BOWLING GREEN, O.—Dr. Gary Silverman, a professor and director of the Environmental Health Program at Bowling Green State
University, has received a Fulbright Fellowship at the School of Engineering in Work Safety and Environmental Hygiene in the
Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR). He will be involved in program assessment and development, teaching and research
there this winter and spring.
Silverman’s association with the institute began through his work with the National Environmental Health Science and Protection
Accreditation Council, the organization that recognizes BGSU as having one of the 24 accredited environmental health programs
in the country.
The ITCR wants to build an academic program in environmental health to meet its charge to produce much of the environmental
workforce needed to help align Costa Rica’s national environmental and economic goals. Silverman will evaluate the existing
academic program at ITCR and help it reach standards comparable to those met by accredited programs in the United States.
According to Silverman, the need to build workforce capacity in Costa Rica reflects a global demand for well-prepared environmental
health professionals—a demand also reflected by the outstanding job market for graduates from BGSU’s Environmental Health
Program. By endorsing his Fulbright fellowship, Costa Rica clearly identifies the link between environmental quality and economic
development, he said.
In addition to working on academic program development, Silverman said he looks forward to working with Costa Rican students
and faculty, teaching and initiating research.
This is Silverman’s second Fulbright fellowship. During 1996, he was assigned to the National Institute of Public Administration
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. There, he worked with government officials teaching about linkages between economic development
and environmental quality.
The BGSU professor holds a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written for many publications
and participates in numerous professional organizations.
The Fulbright Program, created by former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, was launched in 1946. It has since expanded
into seven distinct programs, allowing visiting scholars to come to America as well as sending U.S. faculty and professionals
abroad. The Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Department of State sponsors the program with assistance
from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
Silverman said that in addition to having the personal fulfillment of contributing to environmental development, he appreciates
that the fellowship program gives the United States an opportunity to build bridges and mutual understanding around the world.
(Posted November 17, 2004 )
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