{"id":5121,"date":"2018-02-23T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:26:39","slug":"kevin-is-fulbright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/02\/23\/kevin-is-fulbright\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Is Fulbright"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. McCartney, picture from the event promotion<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If UMPI has something to be proud of, it is surely its faculty. \u00a0An UMPI faculty member once more proves that our university is thriving, and not just for its students\u2019 work. \u00a0\u00a0Its academic and intellectual faculty are no less a living proof that dreams can come true if you really try to follow them. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A recent example of not just an UMPI honor, but also a national, was UMPI professor of geology Dr. Kevin McCartney\u2019s distinction of receiving a Fulbright award. \u00a0This is a U.S. Scholar program accompanied by a grant and, in McCartney\u2019s case, a trip to Poland. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Fulbright program is an American scholarship program based on grants for both students, professionals and scientists established by Senator\u00a0J. William Fulbright in 1946. The Fulbright is the largest exchange program in the U.S with over 1,900 grants in more than 140 countries worldwide. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>On Monday, Feb. 12, faculty, students and community members gathered to celebrate McCartney\u2019s work and honor as the recipient of the Fulbright award.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The presentation was joyful and the audience very intrigued by McCartney\u2019s work and his slideshow with highlights from his trip. An UMPI student with a minor in environmental science and geology, Adam Weyeneth, said, \u201cIt was something new, the information was very insightful.\u201d \u00a0When Adam was asked what stood out the most \u00a0he said, \u201cThe part that each career has a backdoor. \u00a0Professor McCartney used the example that everyone wants to go into biology to study whales, while microbiology has plenty of jobs and areas of study that are so understudied and unknown\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0McCartney\u2019s study was about microbiology and the evolution of silicoflagellates from over a 15-million-year period after the dinosaur extinction. During the course of his research, he discovered and named a new species in honor of UMPI, \u201cUmpiocha umpiana.<\/span>\u201d <\/span><\/i>\u00a0He also described four other species after four UMPI students (\u201cCornua engelii,\u201d \u201cSchylzyocha churchilii,\u201d \u201cS. lurveyi\u201d and \u201cS. powersii\u201d<\/span>). <\/span><\/i>Once more you can see what an exceptional honor it is for UMPI to have such a faculty member who loves and supports our university. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0McCartney said that the reason for applying for the award was fully because of encouragement from his colleagues at the University of Szczecin in Poland. While in Poland and working for the Fulbright scholarship, he ended up writing three first-authored papers and many others that he assisted as a co-author. One of his papers, which ended up in publication, included the description of one new <\/span>genus<\/span> and two new <\/span>species<\/span>, one of them named in honor of Fulbright. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Being dedicated to doing what you love and accomplishing your dreams is something that most people have thought about. McCartney has proven that it is possible to accomplish what you want and follow your dreams. \u00a0You just have to take a step forward, open yourself up to opportunities and have your dreams guide you. <\/span><\/p>\n

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