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Dr. Elmira Popova, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently named a Fulbright Scholar by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to lecture and conduct research in operations research and statistics during the 2008-2009 academic year. Popova will conduct research with colleagues at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics in “St.Kliment Ohridski” University and at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.  Popova will use ideas from operations research and statistics to address forecasting and decision-making problems and will assist in developing a new course.