NATCHITOCHES –Dr. Patrice Moulton, a professor of psychology at Northwestern State University, has been elected to the national board of directors for the Fulbright Association and will begin a three-year term in January 2024. Moulton has served as president of the Louisiana Fulbright Chapter since 2020.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. It is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Moulton received a Fulbright Award in 2017 for her work in Nepal, where she served as a consultant and cultural ambassador while launching the country’s inaugural degree program in counseling psychology. The following year, she served as a Fulbright Specialist to Nepal and later traveled to Thailand to serve as a Fulbright representative and worked as liaison to the Fulbright Association housed in Washington D.C.
In addition to authoring two publications, she was visiting faculty and academic consultant at the Institute of Crisis Management Studies/Kathmandu College of Management and presented at Samarpan Academy as international visiting faculty. Moulton was recognized with a humanitarian award for disaster relief following the 2017 Nepal earthquakes and was involved in creating the early childhood development playroom at the Little Moon School and the dedication of the Dr. Patrice Moulton Library at the Rhombus School.
Because of her work and research, Moulton was NSU’s 2020 recipient of the Dr. Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award, presented annually to a member of the NSU faculty in recognition of outstanding research or distinguished artistic performance or creative work.
