By Jamie Buzek
UHCLIDIAN STAFF
Left: Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship winner Sandria Hu with Senior Vice President and Provost Edward J. Hayes.

For the third time in almost two decades, internationally known artist and art professor Sandria Hu has been honored as a Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship winner.

Hu has been an art professor at UH-Clear Lake for 27 years. Her first two Fulbright Fellowships, awarded in 1986-1987 and 1992-1993, allowed her to travel to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria.

This spring, Hu will spend the semester teaching at the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico.

Upon her return, she hopes to create an exhibit with the completed prints of the collaboration. Once the exhibit is finished, she plans for the University of Veracruz and UH-Clear Lake to each keep portions of the exhibit and build permanent displays.

"Sandria is one of our most outstanding and distinguished faculty members as indicated by her selection for multiple Fulbright Fellowships," said Edward Hayes, university provost. "Her continued excellent level of artist productivity throughout her career here at UHCL has elevated her to an international level of respectability among her colleagues and fellow faculty members. It is indeed an honor to have such a dedicated and committed person as Sandria as a vital part of our faculty instructional team."

Created in 1946, the Fulbright Program awards grants to teachers, administrators, professionals, graduate students and scholars.

"The Fulbright Program aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship," said J. William Fulbright, creator of the Fulbright Program, as quoted on the program's Web site.

The program is open to anyone who is a U.S. resident and has worked full-time in the teaching profession for at least three years. To win a grant, an applicant must submit an application and proposal.

The application then goes through two reviews: one in Washington, D.C. by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the second through the Board of Foreign Scholarships in the country to which the applicant would travel.

"I appreciate Edward Hayes and William Staples [university president], because they made it possible for me to accept this Fulbright Grant," said Hu.

Hu's art is represented in many galleries nationally and internationally. Here in Houston, you can find her work in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Robert McClain Gallery.

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