Wednesday, April 15, 2009

John Quale Garners Two International Fellowships for Research in 2010

[from UVa News Services]

John Quale, assistant professor of architecture, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Japan in the summer of 2010. In addition, he will be the Thomas Jefferson Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge during the 2010 spring semester.

Quale will research sustainable, affordable and prefabricated housing in the U.K. and northern Europe and then in Japan, where he will be associated with the University of Tokyo.

Quale teaches architectural design studios, design/build studios and building technology courses in the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He initiated and serves as project director for the ecoMOD project.

In the U.Va.-Downing arrangement, fellows are not required to teach. Instead, they take time off from their normal routines to write and pursue research. The professor exchange program between Downing and U.Va. began in 1976, and Thomas Jefferson Fellows have gone to Downing every year with the exception of 1987 and 2003.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.

Since the U.S. legislature established it in 1946, the program has provided approximately 286,500 people — including 108,160 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad, and 178,340 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States — with the opportunity to observe each others’ political, economic, educational and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s inhabitants.