Judith Coe Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
Judith Coe, Director of the Commercial Voice Program and Assistant Professor of Music in the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do research at the University of Limerick, in Limerick, Ireland during the 2006-2007 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Coe will spend ten months based at the University of Limerick, in the Irish World Music Centre (IWMC), and will also be traveling around the country doing interviews with students and faculty, observing regional pedagogies and singing styles, and listening to and making music with Irish musicians. Her project will explore alternative expressions in Irish music and song, and will examine sean-nós (Irish traditional "old-style") singing and pedagogy, and how those traditions inform and transform other musical genres, including the creative work of emerging pop musicians and singer/songwriters, electronic and experimental musicians, and classical/cross-over composers and performers.
Coe is one of approximately 800 US faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2006-2007 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange activity, is sponsored by the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of US faculty and professionals have studied, taught or done research abroad, and thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar activities in the US. They are among more than 266,600 American and foreign university students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty and professionals who have participated in the Fulbright exchange programs.
