The Fulbright Association has recognized R. Patrick Alcedo (Dance) with a Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for Dance and Dance Studies.

The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance honours the pioneering and seminal contributions of preeminent dance historian Selma Jeanne Cohen.

Dr. Alcedo will present the lecture as part of the Fulbright Association 37th Annual Conference, to be held in Washington, DC in October 2014 on the theme of ‘Dare to Create'.

The Fulbright Association’s annual conference is an important multidisciplinary forum whose participants are prominent Fulbright alumni, public officials, and representatives of the higher education and foreign affairs communities.