Grants send professors abroad

Four professors have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to teach or conduct research abroad.\nYvette Alex-Assensoh, assistant professor of political science; Randall Baker, professor and director of international programs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Milagros Rivera Sanchez, associate professor of telecommunications; and Marc Rodwin, associate professor of public and environmental affairs were selected by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board. The board is presidentially-appointed.\nThere are 750 scholars nationwide who were awarded Fulbright grants. \nAlex-Assensoh's studies include urban politics, minority politics and mass political behavior. She cane to IU in 1993 after graduating from Dillard University and Ohio State University.\nBaker, at IU since 1985, focuses on the gap between the natural and social sciences. He has published several books on the topic, the most recent in 1995. In 1990, he helped create the New Bulgaria University, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997. \nA new addition to the faculty is Rivera Sanchez, who joined in 2000. She studies telecommunications regulation, Internet law, new technologies and public policy. She is currently examining Internet privacy, access to cable broadband networks by unaffiliated ISPs, regulation of online pornography and regulation of telecommunications in Latin America.\nRodwin joined the IU faculty in 1992. He has written about law, medicine and policy journals on the relation between law, ethics and markets in the health and environmental fields. He focuses on physicians' conflicts of interest, accountability in managed care, consumer protection in health care, health care markets and consumer choice and representation.