Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant recipients. They are Joseph Benson, a professor in NMSU's management department, Wendell Oderkirk, an associate professor of nursing, and Charles Townley, a library professor and former dean of the NMSU Library. The Fulbright program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, pays for recipients to lecture and research in one of over 130 countries.
Awards range from two months to a full academic year.
Benson is teaching at Sogang University in Korea until July. His teaching will focus on demographic differences in work attitudes and cultural differences in self-esteem and productivity. Benson earned his doctorate at Oklahoma State University in 1985. Oderkirk taught in Guanajuato, Mexico, from September through December 1999. At the University of Guanajuato, he taught and researched Dorothea Orem's self-care nursing theory in community health.