Niti Villinger, associate professor of management at Hawai'i Pacific University, is a recipient of a Fulbright Greman Studies Award.

She will travel to Belgium and Germany this summer to study current German society and culture, focusing on "Germany in a Changing Europe — Transatlantic Ties, Transatlantic Challenges."

In 2003, Villinger received a Fulbright Hays Award, which promotes international understanding and education. Villinger holds a docorate in international business and management from the University of Cambridge. In addition to graduate studies at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge, she has lectured at Wolfson College and worked for a number of companies in Germany, including Siemens Public Communications Network.

Other HPU Fulbright scholars include Grace Cheng (political science), Carlos Juárez (international studies), Ed Klein (teaching English as a second language), Leilani Madison (English), Shaun Moss, Art Whatley (management) and James Whitfield (communication); professors Sally La Luzerne-Oi (English as a second language) and Catherine Sajna (English as a second language); and Charles Sasaki, assistant vice president for Student Affairs. During 2006-07, Hawai'i Pacific is hosting a visiting Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant from Libya, Milood Al-Omrani.

Fulbright is the flagship international academic exchange program of the U.S. government, sponsored by the Department of State and established in 1946 to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The program offers grants for faculty members as well as U.S. and international graduate students.