Dodson receives Fulbright grant

Dr. Wanda Dodson, associate professor in home economics, is receiving a Fulbright grant for the 1996 spring semester.

She is lecturing at the Second Tashkent Medical Institute in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is located in central Asia. Dodson said she chose Uzbekistan because of its cultural history as well as Mississippi State's educational involvement.

The grant was presented by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the U.S. Information Agency. Dodson is one of about 2,000 Americans who will travel abroad for the 1995-96 academic year under the Fulbright program. The program is designed to increase mutual understanding between people of the United States and other countries.

Individuals are selected on the basis of academic/professional qualifications, plus their ability and willingness to share ideas and experiences with people of different cultures.

Dodson has been with the university since 1988. She received her bachelor's degree from Berea College in Kentucky and her master's and doctorate from the University of Tennessee.

She has been a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, a pediatric nutritionist in South Vietnam and a consulting nutritionist in Nepal, India, Afghanistan, and Iran.