{"id":67271,"date":"2006-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumna-has-georgia-on-her-mind\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumna-has-georgia-on-her-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/08\/uri-alumna-has-georgia-on-her-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumna has Georgia on her mind"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tFulbright grant will fund project in former Soviet Republic<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. — August 28, 2006 — Lisa Lahr, a 2006 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna, will spend the next 10 months in Georgia. This will be her fourth trip to the former Soviet Republic and her longest stay.<\/p>\n


\nThe trip is underwritten by a $19,500 Fulbright grant. Lahr, a Middletown resident, is one of 1,200 Americans who will travel abroad this academic year through the Fulbright Student Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed to build mutual understanding between Americans and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n


\nLahr\u2019s previous visits to Georgia have been with camera in hand. A trip in 2005, funded by a Michael J. Metcalf Memorial fellowship, resulted in an exhibit of some of her 3,000 images of Georgians at work and at play.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Fulbright scholar would like to have others visit, work, and enjoy the country that captured her heart while she captured it on film. But the language stops them.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe wants to remove the barrier.\u201d I would like to make the language more accessible,\u201d says the 42-year-old who will study at the International Center for Georgian Language Research in Tbilisi. \u201cMore people would go to Georgia if they weren\u2019t afraid of the language.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile Lahr admits that the Georgian language with its western Asian roots is complex, she says it\u2019s not all that hard. She should know. She spent two months at Indiana University\u2019s Summer Workshop for East European and Central Asian Language. She found the experience daunting at first since her classmates were primarily linguists who spoke several languages. <\/p>\n


\n\tBut the experience also proved to be a turning point. \u201cI\u2019d like to remove the fear of the language,\u201d Lahr says. \u201cMake it easier for the doctor in Doctors Without Borders, the businessman, the AIDS worker, the nurse, the musician, and more to come to the country.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMore people knowing the language will aid in its development, after all we live in a global marketplace. And it would work both ways. Georgians — historians, geneticists, dancers, etc. would finally be recognized for their work.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe hopes to collaborate with an American art teacher in Georgia to create a Georgian alphabet book filled with words and culture. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cNothing intimidating. It would be a kind of pre-Berlitz. Perhaps it would be something a 16-year-old could pick up at her local Barnes and Noble, become curious, and investigate further.\u201d<\/p>\n


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Fulbright grant will fund project in former Soviet Republic KINGSTON, R.I. — August 28, 2006 — Lisa Lahr, a 2006 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna, will spend the next 10 months in Georgia. This will be her fourth trip to the former Soviet Republic and her longest stay. The trip is underwritten by a $19,500 Fulbright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}