UAH Welcomes First Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence to Expand International Chemical Engineering Education and Research

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is welcoming its first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, marking a milestone in the university's international engagement, while opening new opportunities for global engineering education, research collaboration and student exchange. Professor Giovanni Morales Medina of the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia, will spend the 2026-27 academic year with UAH's Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering (CME) through the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program (SIR), an initiative sponsored by the U.