In 2024, UAPB and Delaware State University faculty and students visited Ghana to explore aquaculture opportunities. The group met with fishers in Adwafo to discuss challenges facing smallholder farmers. Dr. Lochmann is on the far left, standing behind the seated village elders. © UAPB
While in Ghana, Dr Lochmann will conduct research and teach using her experience in aquaculture nutrition and feed development with faculty at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. The activities will be conducted within the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, which performs innovative teaching, research and outreach activities to support the aquaculture industry.
According to the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Fulbright United States Scholars include faculty, researchers, administrators and professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. Scholars engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started abroad and laying the groundwork for forging future partnerships between institutions. Upon returning to their home institutions, they share their stories and often become active supporters of international exchange, inviting foreign scholars to campus and encourage colleagues and students to go abroad.
Dr Lochmann expressed gratitude to several colleagues who supported her application, including Dr Pamela Moore at UAPB, and UAPB alumni Dr Regina Edziyie and Dr Emmanuel Frimpong, who provided letters of support. She will collaborate with Dr Edziyie and her team at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Dr Frimpong, now at Virginia Tech, is also a Fulbright alumnus.
“I was pleased to learn of Dr Lochmann’s selection as a Fulbright Scholar to conduct research and to teach using her experience in aquaculture nutrition and feeds development with faculty at KNUST,” Dr Moore, associate dean for global engagement at UAPB, said in a press release. “Beneficiaries will include fish producers in Ghana as well as faculty and staff at KNUST, one of Ghana’s leading institutions of higher learning.
Dr Lochmann has been at UAPB since 1993. During that time, she has served in the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries as a researcher, department chair and professor. She joins the rank of over 400,000 who have been given the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad through the Fulbright Program since 1946.
Fulbright is a programme of the United States Department of State, with funding provided by the United States government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the programme which has operated in over 160 countries worldwide.
