Psychologist Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant


Arturo Hernandez, professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded a 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He will have the privilege of joining an outstanding research group in the Basque region of Spain.

The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching and research awards in over 125 countries; Hernandez is among just 470 individuals who received an award in 2019. As part of his research in Spain, Hernandez will further explore his areas of interest, including bilingual language processing, second-language acquisition, and the neural bases of bilingualism.