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William Paterson University Biology Professor Named Fulbright Scholar Dr. Ching Yeh Hu, a William Paterson University professor emeritus of biology, has been named a Fulbright Exchange Scholar and will spend ten months conducting research and teaching in the Ukraine. An expert in plant tissue culture and genetic engineering, Hu will work at the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of the Ukrainian National Academy of Science from January through November 2001. He will assist the Institute in developing its homemade gene gun as a tool for genetic engineering and work with faculty members to develop a new direction of research on soybean biotechnology, and will also teach courses on plant tissue culture and plant genetic engineering. Hu also will lecture at various Ukrainian institutes and will spend some time at the University of Kherson in the southern part of the Ukraine to provide assistance to its plant biotechnology program. This latest Fulbright award is Hu's second. As a Fulbright Exchange Scholar in Brazil in 1987, Hu assisted the Federal University Rio Grando do Sul in initiating a soybean biotechnology research facility, which has developed into the best-known soybean biotechnology laboratory in South America. Hu retired from William Paterson in 2000 after 31 years as a faculty member at the institution. He has received numerous grants for his research, including awards from the National Institutes of Health, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Upjohn Co. His research has focused on various genetic engineering techniques to reduce disease in crops such as soybeans, peppers; and forestry work to develop hardier species of trees which could thrive in the Brazilian rain forest. A graduate of Taichung Agricultural College in China, Hu received his master's degree in horticulture and doctorate in genetics from West Virginia University. He is a resident of Ringwood, New Jersey.
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