Sixteen Fulbright scholars are doing their fellowship work at Columbia this year.

They were among the more than 800 foreign scholars selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the United States Information Agency to receive Fulbright awards to lecture or conduct research in the U.S. in 1995 and 1996.

They are:

• Antonina Berezovenko, associate professor of Ukrainian language, literature and culture. Kiev Polytechnical Institute (Ukraine);

• Margaret Chuang, chief of planning and management control, Veterans General Hospital (Taiwan), Teachers College;

• Andrea L. Gastron, research scholar, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina);

• Georgia Kapetanaki, director, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Institute for Soil Classification and Mapping (Greece);

• Silvia Y. Llomovatte, researcher in education, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Teachers College;

• Mihhail Lotman, department head of semiotics, Estonian Institute for Humanities;

• Marco Mariano, doctoral candidate in history, University of Torino (Italy);

• Hamadi Matoussi, associate professor of finance, University of Tunis III (Tunisia);

• Brian W. Meeks, lecturer in government, University of the West Indies at Mona (Jamaica), also at Michigan State University;

• Errol L. Miller, professor of teacher education, University of the West Indies-Mona (Jamaica), Teachers College, also at Harvard;

• Beatrice Pire, doctoral student in English, University of Paris III (France);

• Layla Rizk, lecturer in English, Ain Shams University (Egypt);

• Yoshikazu Shimizu, staff foreign news writer, Tokyo/Chunichi Shimbun (Japan);

• Morten Sjaastad, doctoral fellow, Oslo School of Architecture (Norway);

• Pravit Sudkeaw, lecturer in chemistry, Khon Kaen University (Thailand), and

• Xiaodong Yu, associate professor of economics, Peking University (China).

Columbia University Record -- April 5, 1996 -- Vol. 21, No. 22