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Creighton Faculty Receive Fulbright Scholarships

Two faculty members at Creighton University have received Fulbright grants.

Christopher Gerteis, Ph.D., associate professor of history, received a Fulbright research grant to support his project, titled “Blue Collar Youth and Rise of the New Left in Postwar Japan.” He will be in residence at Sophia University in Tokyo during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Steve Virgil, director of the Community Economic Development Jonathan Saffold will intern at a Merck Research Lab and will be working with a research group on an Alzheimer’s disease project. Clinic at Creighton’s School of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for teaching and research in the Czech Republic. Virgil will spend the spring of 2009 at Palacky University law school in Olomouc, Czech Republic. His project is to develop a model curriculum for using the law school’s resources to serve non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) in Eastern Europe. Virgil will research and write an article defining strategies to facilitate the development of NGO’s in the relative vacuum of post-Soviet Eastern Europe.