BlackboardProfessor Abichou to Study Abroad with Fulbright Grants
Associate Professor of
Civil & Environmental Engineering
at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Florida State University professors are doing their part to promote leadership, learning and understanding between cultures, thanks to Fulbright grants that will allow them to study abroad this year.
Tarek Abichou, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He will spend six months in Tunisia studying environmental solutions for soil, groundwater and air pollution caused by waste disposal practices in the northern Africa region.
"I am very pleased that these faculty members have been selected as Fulbright Scholars," said Dean of the Faculties Anne Rowe. "Not only will their contributions have global impact, but their students will also benefit significantly from this experience upon their return to FSU."
Abichou will assess the feasibility of using water balance landfill covers in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco as a cost-effective way to cover landfills and reduce groundwater contamination. He also will introduce biotechnology approaches to mitigate landfill emission of greenhouse gases. He is collaborating with the National Institute of Applied Science and Technologies and National School of Engineering in Gabes, Tunisia.
Abichou and other FSU professors are among approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad during the 2007-2008 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Fulbright Scholars are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
