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substar>tial contributions to the funding of the program. The number 

 of grants and the fields in which they are offered are determined by the 

 binational Fulbright Commission or U.S. embassy in each participat- 

 ing country. Each spring the Council for International Exchange of 

 Scholars (CIES) announces approximately 650 awards for American 

 scholars to lecture or conduct research in more than 100 countries, 

 including 19 in Western Europe. 



Of the 1,170 Fulbright awards made in all fields to American 

 scholars going to Western Europe over the past 5 years, 722 were for 

 lecturing and 448 for research. In the lecturing category, only 82, or 11 

 percent, were specialists in science and technology. However, in the 

 research category, where awards are usually open to scholars in any 

 field, 164, or 34 percent, of the awards made in the past 5 years were 

 in the sciences. Of the 246 scientists who received lecturing or research 

 awards to Western Europe, the largest cohort was in engineering, 

 which had 53 grantees, followed by chemistry with 45, and physics 

 with 34. The 114 remaining grantees were distributed among the life 

 sciences, astronomy, computer science, food technology, geology, 

 and mathematics. In summary, there have been on the average over 



TABLE 3 Distribution of American Scientists and Engineers Under Fulbright 

 Awards in Western Europe, 1978-1982 



SOURCE: Council for International Exchange of Scholars (1983). 



