Robert Engle, associate professor of international business, has received the Galpin International Exchange Fellowship.
Engle will examine similarities and differences of entrepreneurship in the United States and Russia to develop an international model of entrepreneurship. He will work with Nikolay Dimitriadi from Rostov Economic University in Russia. Engle will visit Russia to lecture to students and meet faculty, and Dimitriadi will visit Quinnipiac to do the same. This fellowship supports Engle and Dimitriadi’s research in both countries during the 2008-09 academic year.
“The research supported by this fellowship will build on our previous and current work, and further extend our understanding of the environment and drivers of entrepreneurial activity across countries,” Engle said. “Given the critical role that entrepreneurial activity plays in the economic development of communities and nations, it is important to understand what is necessary to encourage and support this activity.”
The fellowship allows full-time faculty members to teach or do research at a partner institution abroad and also allows a faculty member from a foreign institution to teach or do research at Quinnipiac. The fellowship is an endowed fund established in 2001 with a gift from Virginia Galpin Crossley and her husband, Erskine Crossley, in memory of her late husband, Samuel A. Galpin. He was a Quinnipiac trustee who passed away in 1990.
Past recipients include:
- Signian McGeary, assistant professor of occupational therapy, who worked with a colleague at the University of Zimbabwe and at Community Rehabilitation Program and Teaching Facility in Bangladesh, to teach about adult physical dysfunction and neurological disorders.
- Mohammad Elahee, associate professor of international business, who is working with a professor from Earth University in Costa Rica to study Costa Rica’s international trading future.
- Farid Sadrieh, associate professor of international business, who will visit Madagascar this summer to research export processing zones.