Simmons College Professor Receives Fulbright Award

BOSTON (Feb. 14, 2002) - Sheila Intner, a Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science professor emerita, has been awarded the Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in Library Sciences at Bar Ilan University in Israel.

The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two- to six-week grants to leading U.S. academics and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries around the world. The Senior Specialists Program aims at increasing the number of faculty and professionals who have the opportunity to go abroad on a Fulbright grant.

Grantees will take on many activities, ranging from conducting teacher training and developing and assessing curricula or educational materials, to leading seminars or workshops and conducting needs assessments.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

Simmons College is a nationally recognized, small, private, predominantly women's university in the heart of Boston. It has undergraduate programs for women and graduate programs for women and men.

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