A Prestigious Honor For a UT Tyler Professor
Posted/updated on: March 31, 2017 at 2:53 pm
TYLER – University of Texas at Tyler professor Dr. William “Bill” Sorensen been named a Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Program is an international exchange initiative created in 1946. It awards grants to American scholars each year to teach or conduct research in the more than 125 nations throughout the world. With the award, Sorensen will travel during the spring 2018 semester to Brazil to teach epidemiology in a graduate nursing program. He also will conduct research with Brazilian colleagues on the topic of smoking cessation interventions in HIV individuals.
Funded by the U.S. government, Fulbright Scholars are chosen by the presidentially appointed 12-member J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Scholars are selected based on their leadership and academic merits and their abilities to teach, conduct research and contribute to solutions for shared international concerns.
Dr. Sorenson, who has been the university since 2004, is an associate professor within the Department of Health and Kinesiology. His research interests include epidemiology and research design in health studies. Among his accolades, Sorensen was named the university’s 2010-11 “Department Instructor of the Year.” He also has been instrumental in developing smoking cessation and men’s health programming in the Tyler area.
