Dr Steve Hageman joined a group of four faculty and staff to make Appalachian the nation's leading receipient of Fullbright awards at the Master's level in 2018-2019. Dr Hageman spent Fall 2018 working on collaborative research with scientists at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland. This is Dr Hageman's second time serving as a Fullbright Scholar, following a semester in Croatia in 2006.