Julie Koch Receives Fulbright Specialists Award

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Julie Koch, Associate Professor of Counseling and Counseling Psychology in the Oklahoma State University College of Education, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, at the LGBT Centre during June 2015, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Koch will assist with the training of crisis counselors and psychologists who work with the LGBT community. She will also help develop violence prevention programs and materials.

Koch is one of over 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. 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. Over 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.