UA WALTON COLLEGE PROFESSOR AWARDED FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR GRANT

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Andrew W. Horowitz, associate professor of economics in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, has received a 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholar grant.

Beginning April 1, 2003, Horowitz will begin a Fulbright Scholar residency at Funcação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 1, 2003. He will be conducting research on child-labor issues and teaching a graduate seminar in development economics.

Joseph A. Ziegler, chair of the Walton College’s economics department and director of International Programs, said, "Andy is one of 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 140 countries for the 2002-2003 academic year through the Fulbright program. His field research enables him to bring the experience back to the classroom and share with our students # as well as advance his research interests in the problems of developing countries."

The Fulbright Program was signed into law in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright. The program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. Recipients of Fulbright Scholar award are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrate extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

This is Horowitz’s second semester at Funcação Getulio Vargas, one of the top business schools in Latin America. He spent a semester there in 2000 teaching a graduate course in development economics. He is fluent in Brazil’s native language, Portuguese. He said at that time, "I am particularly interested in intra-family economic issues # about thinks like how decisions are made regarding about which children will be sent to school and which will be sent out to work."

Horowitz holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland-College Park and a master’s of science and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include development, international trade, and industrial organization. He has served as an analyst for the congressional Budget Office, taught at Vanderbilt University, and consulted for The Inter-American Development Bank. He has published journal articles in the American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, World Development, and numerous other journals.

Among thousands of prominent U.S. Fulbright Scholar alumni are Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics; James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and Nobel Laureate in Medicine; Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet; and Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel Corporation.