Associate Professor Marilyn Lotas Heads to Lebanon as Fulbright Scholar
Will work with faculty at the Lebanese American University of Beirut
Posted 8/22/11
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Marilyn Lotas,
PhD, RN |
Marilyn Lotas has sent many undergraduates abroad for field study. Now, the associate professor and associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will cross international borders herself as a Fulbright Scholar at the Alice Ramez Chagoury School of Nursing at the Lebanese American University of Beirut (LAU) in Lebanon.
“I’m really excited,” said Lotas, who leaves Aug. 26. The Fulbright program, administered by the U.S. State Department, provides a stipend for housing and travel.
When Lotas arrives at LAU, she will learn in detail what she will be doing during the next year, but she said it probably will include some teaching duties at the newly established Alice Ramaz Chagoury School of Nursing.
Classes are taught in English, so language presents no barrier, but Lotas is practicing her French and plans to take some Arabic classes once there. Along with English, French and Arabic are widely spoken.
“I probably won’t become proficient in Arabic, a complex language, but hopefully will learn enough to say hello, thank you and have some conversations in the language,” she said.
Source: Case Western Reserve University
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