{"id":46413,"date":"2016-05-27T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=46413"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:17:05","slug":"carolina-lam-receives-fulbright-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/27\/carolina-lam-receives-fulbright-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Lam receives Fulbright Award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Director of Global Education Carolina Lam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolina Lam<\/strong>, director of global education at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> Center for Global Education and Exchange, has received a prestigious Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Award to visit South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the program is to provide international education administrators an opportunity to learn about the host country’s educational system and network with Korean and U.S.<\/abbr> cohort colleagues. Lam will spend two weeks in June traveling throughout South Korea, meeting with representatives from the country’s universities, along with selected government and private sector agencies.<\/p>\n

“I am honored to have been selected to participate in this program,” Lam said. “I look forward to learning more about South Korea’s culture and educational system, and visiting with at least four of our 11 partner universities that are located there.” <\/p>\n

More about the International Education Administrators Award<\/h2>\n

The IEA<\/abbr> award is part of the Fulbright Scholar program, which sends approximately 1,100 U.S.<\/abbr> faculty and professionals abroad each year. Fulbright programs are international education exchanges that are sponsored by the U.S. government and designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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