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WKU Graduate Receives Fulbright
Award To Germany

August 02, 2005

Bowling Green, Ky. - Timothy Dail, a May 2005 graduate of Western Kentucky University, has been nominated to receive a Fulbright grant to Germany in "Teaching English As A Foreign Language," the U.S. Department
of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Dail will be one of more than 1,000 U.S. students to travel abroad for the 2005-2006 academic year through the Fulbright Program. He will be placed in the city of Stendal, about 60 miles west of Berlin.

Dail, who majored in German with a minor in English, lives in Norwalk, Conn., and will continue his graduate studies in German at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

He is a graduate of Boyd County High School in Ashland, Ky., and studied at the University of Kentucky and the Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany before coming to WKU.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.

Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged more than a quarter of a million people -- 100,900 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 166,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The program operates in more 150 countries worldwide.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. For information about the Fulbright program, visit http://exchanges.state.gov or contact Heidi Manley, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, at (202) 453-8534.

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For information, contact Timothy Dail at (203) 952-3573.