TUSCALOOSA, AL — Five University of Alabama faculty members have been selected for prestigious Fulbright awards that will allow them to teach, conduct research and collaborate with scholars in five countries around the world.
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The awards are part of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, which offers more than 380 awards in more than 120 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and complete professional projects abroad.
Since its founding, the program has connected nearly 450,000 Fulbright participants through international research, education and cultural exchange.
The 2026 University of Alabama Fulbright recipients represent disciplines ranging from nursing and business to environmental engineering and American studies.
Mudasir "Roohi" Andrabi, an associate professor in the Capstone College of Nursing, received a Fulbright-Nehru U.S. Scholar Award to conduct research in New Delhi, India.
Andrabi will partner with faculty in the department of preventive medicine at Unani Medical College, Jamia Hamdard University, on the South Asian Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Digital Coaching, or SACRED, project.
Kate Brauman, deputy director of the Global Water Security Center, was selected as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Water at McGill University in Montreal.
Her project will examine how healthy ecosystems contribute to water and national security. The research seeks to create a framework that better quantifies the role of natural systems and identifies opportunities to improve national security through nature-based solutions.
Russell Matthews, Miller Professor of Management in the Culverhouse College of Business, also received a Fulbright Canada Research Chair, serving in Business and Management at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
Matthews and fellow researchers will study how cultural differences, work-life balance expectations and labor structures in the United States and Canada influence employees' perceptions of discretionary workplace behaviors.
Mairin Odle, associate professor of American Studies, earned a Fulbright Scholar Award and will travel to Orléans, France, to collaborate with researchers at the Laboratoire RÉMÉLICE in the Département d'études anglophones at the Université d'Orléans.
Odle's research focuses on the role of biography in 19th-century reform movements, combining historical archival research with literary and critical interpretive methods to examine cross-cultural interactions and transnational history.
Glenn Tootle, professor in the department of civil, construction and environmental engineering, received the J. William Fulbright Research Scholar Award to conduct drought research in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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