Bhowmik awarded Fulbright to Bangladesh

Prasanta C. Bhowmik, professor of weed science in the Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for spring 2007.

He will travel to Bangladesh to lecture on weed ecology and management in various agro-ecosystems in Bangladesh at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka and at Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh.

A member of the faculty since 1981, Bhowmik is an authority on integrated weed management strategies in field crops and cool-season turfgrass species, the biology of weeds, herbicide selectivity, crop-weed interactions, biological control of weeds and the use of organic products for weed management. He is a fellow of the Weed Science Society of America.

The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of the more than 150 countries that currently participate in the Fulbright Program. Each year, the program sends many U.S. faculty and professionals abroad. Grantees lecture and research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.

April 20, 2006