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FULBRIGHT                                CONTACT:James A. Lawrence
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October 16, 2008

Edmund H. Hecht Receives Fulbright Award

Edmund H. Hecht, President and Principal Consultant of EHco Services, Inc. who has served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Delmar College, and Embry Riddell University-NAS has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Kremenchuk Mykhaylo Ostrogradskiy State Polytechnic University, Kremenchuk, Ukraine during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Hecht will lecture in the subjects of international marketing, international business, entrepreneurship, and management.

Hecht is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S, Scholar program.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and/or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership in their fields. Hecht, a former member of the CCISD Board of Trustees, has been recognized many times for his local community and professional involvement and as an international volunteer bringing his business skills to developing countries.

The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  Since the establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright program has provided approximately 286,500 people – 108,160 Americans who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 178,340 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States-with the opportunity to observe each others’ political, economic, educational, and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s inhabitants.  The program operates in over 155 countries worldwide.

For further information about the Fulbright program or the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit our website at http://fulbright.state,gov or contact James A. Lawrence, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, telephone 202-453-8531, fulbright@state.gov.