{"id":6457,"date":"2026-05-15T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=6457"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:20:45","slug":"faculty-fulbright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/fall-2022\/along-the-walk\/faculty-fulbright\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Fulbright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Trinity College Professor of Biology Kent D. Dunlap has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to teach in Uruguay. Although he has deferred travel to Uruguay until 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dunlap taught virtually as part of a graduate-level course at the Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica in Montevideo during his sabbatical in the 2021\u201322 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>A program of the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Specialist Program is a unique opportunity for U.S. academics and established professionals to engage in two- to six-week, project-based exchanges at host institutions across the globe. Dunlap previously has received two Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grants: one in 2009 to study electric fish in Uruguay and one in 2019 to research fish brains in Portugal. The electric fish that Dunlap studies are native to Uruguay, and his fellowship there launched a long collaboration with a group of researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlap plans to teach in person in Uruguay in May and June of 2023, which is winter in the southern hemisphere and will not interfere with his teaching at Trinity. \u201cThe course is on the neural basis of social behavior in animals,\u201d he said. \u201cI will be giving lectures on my area of expertise\u2014how the production of new neurons in the brain contributes to social behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His work as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program is related directly to his teaching at Trinity. Dunlap said, \u201cAt Trinity, I teach an upper-level course on sensory biology, and we do various writing exercises: writing about scientific material for the general audience, a research paper, and a mock research proposal as well. I believe writing skills are really important for scientists, but not just one kind of writing; it\u2019s important to reach many different audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Trinity faculty for 24 years, Dunlap said he enjoys the benefits of being at a small liberal arts college in a city. \u201cYou can do both teaching and research here. The ability to be both a teacher and a scholar has been a great part of my work at Trinity,\u201d he said. \u201cThe support the college has given me to teach and do research abroad has been great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Professor of Biology Kent D. Dunlap has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to teach in Uruguay. 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