Materials Science and Engineering professor, Timothy Weihs, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright award to New Zealand. Next year, Weihs is planning to take a 12-month sabbatical to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. While there, he will focus on activities centered around three main areas:
- Researching the use of 3-D woven structures as scaffolds for bone and tissue growth, alongside researchers at the University of Canterbury and the University of Otago.
- Teaching an undergraduate course on the mechanical properties of biomaterials.
- Creating a program to establish a foreign exchange between Johns Hopkins University and the University of Canterbury for undergraduate engineering students.
The Fulbright Program is an educational program which aims to bridge the gap of understanding between people of the United States and people of other countries. Established by J. William Fulbright, a former United States Senator who represented Arkansas for nearly 30 years, the Fulbright award has had over 370,000 participants since its inception in 1946.