Slippery Rock University announced dance professor Melissa Teodoro received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2024-25 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

In the spring of 2025 during her sabbatical leave, Teodoro will examine specific dance forms that were born and practiced in the South American country of Colombia, specifically along the banks of the Magdalena River, a 950-mile waterway that represents the country's complex history and fertile culture.

Teodoro will be one of more than 800 faculty, researchers, administrators and established professionals who teach or conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program each year.