February 9, 2007

LIVINGSTON, Ala.—Continuing the 2007 Fulbright Lecture Series, The University of West Alabama welcomes Dr. Timothée Dieudonné Ouassa, visiting Fulbright Scholar from the Ivory Coast. He will offer the audience insights into life in his country on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Bell Conference Center with a lecture entitled "Ivory Coast: geographical, cultural and political aspects." A reception in his honor will be held prior to the lecture from 4:30-5:45 p.m. in Webb Hall Parlor. The public is invited.

The third of four Fulbright Scholars visiting UWA this spring, Ouassa comes by invitation of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He is Assistant Professor of Bacteriology-Virology at the University of Cocody in the Republic of Ivory Coast. For nearly a decade, Ouassa has also led the bacteriology unit at the Center for Diagnostic and Research, focusing on AIDS and other opportunistic infections at the Teaching Hospital of Treichville. Currently teaching at the University of Tennessee, his fields of interest include HIV, tuberculosis and other infections. Ouassa is one of approximately 800 foreign scholars chosen this year to lecture, conduct research and participate in seminars in the United States through the Fulbright Scholars Program.

An Iraqi scholar rounds out this year’s Fulbright Lecture Series on Thursday, March 15 at 6 p.m. with a discussion on the social conditions of women in the Middle East. Admission to all Fulbright Lecture Series presentations is free. For more information, please call (205) 652-3892.