Stephen J. Cutler, professor emeritus of sociology and former Bishop Robert F. Joyce Distinguished University Professor of Gerontology at the University of Vermont, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Romania at the University of Bucharest during October, 2015.

Cutler will work with the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest to initiate the university’s new master’s degree program on aging. During his time there, he'll deliver the keynote address at a national conference on aging, consult with faculty teaching in the new program, lecture to undergraduate and graduate students, and help create linkages between the program and local and national organizations with an interest in aging.

Cutler is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world.

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. Award recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement. Over 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.

PUBLISHED

06-29-2015
University Communications