Rebecca Klenk, lecturer in Interdisciplinary Programs, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for spring 2014 and will lecture and work with graduate students in the anthropology department at the University of Delhi. She will work on global educational restructuring and develop a project of community experiences with Himalayan climate change.

Scott Frey, professor of sociology, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for fall 2013 and will study the consequences of pesticide use on export-focused rice production in Vietnam. He will also lecture on environment and development at the Vietnam National University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City.

Melanie Eldridge, research assistant professor of microbiology, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will do research in Brazil in fall 2013 on the ecotoxicology of zebrafish and will help establish a molecular biology laboratory at the University of Campinas in Limeira.

Meng Rowland, a recent UT Ph.D. graduate in chemistry, has received a Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. Rowland — a student of Michael Best, associate professor of chemistry — will receive two years of support for her project, “Molecular determinants of DNA sliding and hopping by a DNA repair glycosylase.”

Tricia Stuth, Robert French, and Richard Kelso, on the UT architecture faulty, and graduate student Samuel Mortimer received the Design Build Award for the New Norris House, which integrated school curriculum with practical projects addressing cultural, economic, social, and environmental sustainability.