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Professor Matthew Mirow will complete a three-year term on the Southern Cone Regional Review Panel of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC, this year. The Council administers the award of Fulbright U.S. Visiting Scholars, commonly referred to as Fulbright Professors, for the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Board.

The Fulbright is recognized as the United States’ premiere academic exchange program.  Over the past three years, Mirow has reviewed hundreds of applications by university professors seeking to teach or to do research in the countries comprising the Southern Cone, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

Mirow, who had a Fulbright to Chile in 2009, said, “It is a great deal of fun to read and discuss applications from professors around the U.S. in all sorts of fields.  The Fulbright not only changes the lives of these professors but also touches so many students and professors in the host universities.  I have no doubt that the Fulbright program is tax money well spent.   It has really been an honor to have played a small part in the Fulbright process.”

MIAMI – Phyllis Diane Kotey, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at FIU Law, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB). The FSB is the Presidentially appointed 12-member Board that is responsible for establishing worldwide policies for the Fulbright Program and for selection of Fulbright recipients.

Judge Kotey has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology during the 2012-2013 academic year. Judge Kotey will teach Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure and will examine the utility of ADR as an evolving and effective tool in the High Courts, the Regional Tribunals, the circuit courts, the circuit tribunals, the district courts and the community tribunals in Ghana.

Judge Kotey is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2012-2013.

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