Georgia Perimeter College professors Dr. Julia Rux and Barbara Hall have been named Fulbright Scholars by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. They will be teaching abroad during part of the 2014-15 academic year.

Rux, who teaches psychology and anthropology online, has been assigned to teach a variety of psychology courses for undergraduate and graduate students at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca, Ecuador, beginning in the fall.

Hall, an English as a Second Language professor on Clarkston Campus, will be teaching and training English teachers in Costa Rica beginning next January. She has not been given a college assignment yet.

Both professors will be gone for four months and are excited about the Fulbright and the opportunity to teach abroad.

This will be Rux’s first Fulbright since she began teaching at GPC in 1989. “I am very excited to have been chosen to go to Ecuador. The whole experience will be heightened by the fact that I will attempt to teach classes in Spanish,” Rux says. “I love speaking and continuing to learn in Spanish. Having lived in Mexico and having taken students to Madrid for study abroad has helped me keep my Spanish active.”

This is Hall’s second Fulbright scholarship; her first was in Uruguay in 2008. “I am excited about this award and what I will learn about language teaching while I am abroad speaking Spanish,” says Hall. “I certainly will return with new ideas, new ways of teaching and new perspectives.”

Both professors will be paid a stipend during their trips abroad. The Fulbright grant is made possible through funds that are appropriated annually by the U.S. Congress and, in many cases, by contributions from partner countries and/or the private sector.

Fulbright alumni have become heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet ministers, CEOs, university presidents, journalists, artists, professors and teachers. They have been awarded 43 Nobel Prizes. Since its inception more than 60 years ago, approximately 300,000 Fulbrighters have participated in the program.