Media Contact: C.C. Gonzalez-Kurz; CGonzalezKurz@DallasCollege.edu
Dallas College is pleased to announce that Professor L. Taylor Starr has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. This summer, she will complete a project at Petra Christian University’s Engineering Department that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within engineering education.
Starr has been with Dallas College since 2018, and this is the third time she has been appointed to the Fulbright program. Her first appointment was to Cameroon as a Fulbright Specialist, where she taught engineering entrepreneurship at the National Advanced School of Public Works. Later, she was appointed to be a Fulbright Scholar in Barbados. There, she taught lean six sigma engineering at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
“I hope to use this most recent Fulbright appointment as a launchpad for inspiring others within and outside the Dallas College community in hopes they too will one day pursue their own global exchange experience,” she said.
Starr is one of over 400 U.S. citizens who share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program each year. Recipients of Fulbright Specialist awards are selected based on academic and professional achievement, demonstrated leadership in their field and their potential to foster long-term cooperation between institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has given more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.