Dr. Lincoln, whose doctorate in Russian history was from the University of Chicago, spent several years in Russia as a exchange scholar.
A Russian scientist working at the National Institutes of Health on an "exchange scholar" visa in the early 1990's, Mr. Pruss would take part in online discussions with other expatriates of the former Soviet Union on Usenet, a worldwide network that held thousands of discussions on most every conceivable topic.
Before joining the company, Samira had been a J-1 exchange scholar for 5 years and had worked as a research scientist (both pre- and postdoctoral) in the laboratory of a prominent professor.
Perhaps, Mr. Gewirtz said, an exchange with scholars appears less threatening to the Chinese than one with the government.
In case anybody missed the point, he noted that his definition of a dialogue was an exchange between "scholars and wise men".
(The Austrian College Society had been founded in 1945 by Austrian resistance fighters, "to provide a forum for the exchange of scholars and ideas and so to prepare the political unification of Europe" (Science in a Free Society, p. 109)).
The creation of the Nishida Philosophy Association in 2004 (see the website listed below) has helped inaugurate a new era of cooperative exchange between scholars from various areas of Japan as well as from abroad.
It was the U.S. that opened up the world for so many German exchange students, scholars, businessmen, and travelers in the years that followed.
With decades of experience, the Fulbright Program clearly welcomes the positive effects of the regular exchange of scholars and educators of proven excellence on broad issues of cultural diplomacy like peace, the progress of democracy, and economic cooperation over time.
On Monday, Mr. Kharazzi visited the Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., to arrange for exchanges of scholars.
