University of Detroit Mercy faculty member receives Fulbright Award

Anthony Martinico, professor of Architecture at University of Detroit Mercy, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship grant to lecture at the Politechnika Warszawska in Warsaw, Poland. He began his studies last September and will be teaching until July of 2008.

Martinico will focus on architectural history and theory, specifically American architecture and urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries and architectural theory from 1965 to the present. Martinico is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. He is the first faculty member from the School of Architecture to receive the Fulbright Award.

As UDM's Director of the School of Architecture international programs in Warsaw, Poland and Florence, Italy, Martinico holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Detroit.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 279,500 people—105,400 Americans, the opportunity to study, teach and research abroad. The Program operates in over 150 countries worldwide. The Fulbright U.S Scholar Program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

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The University of Detroit Mercy is Michigan's largest private Catholic University, offering approximately 100 majors and programs in 60 academic fields. Sponsored by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the University has three campuses located in downtown and northwest Detroit.

For the 11th consecutive year, UDM was ranked among the top tier of Midwestern master's universities in U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" – 2012 edition.

Publish date: November 16, 2007