Recent UB Grad to Teach in Spain under Fulbright Grant

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Amherst resident Meghan Fadel, a 2005 UB graduate and 2001 graduate of Amherst High School, has received a grant from the J. William Fulbright Foundation to teach English-as-a-second-language in Spain during the 2005-06 academic year.

Fadel will be one of more than 1,000 American students to travel abroad for the 2005-06 academic year through the 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 the rest of the world.

Fadel received a bachelor of arts degree in English with a minor in Spanish from UB in May. Her academic work also included a number of science courses, as well. She currently works as a project aid in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

During her Fulbright year, Fadel will teach in the ancient city of Murcia, on Spain's Costa Blanca. Murcia is the capital of a one-province autonomous community, also called Murcia, which in antiquity was the site of powerful Carthaginian and Roman settlements. The Moors settled the region around 800 A.D. and for more than 400 years the region was part of the Moorish caliphate of Cordoba.

Murcia is noted for its splendid Baroque architecture; a variety of museums; the University of Murcia, whose precedents go back to 1248 A.D., and for the Cathedral de Santa Maria, a magnificent Baroque cathedral built in 1348 as a gothic structure on the site of a mosque, and altered in the Baroque tradition in the 16th century.