RIVERSIDE – Lynn Janik, who teaches and lives in Riverside, has been selected for a Fulbright Grant for the 2016-17 school year.

“I will be taking a sabbatical from Hauser Junior High School in Riverside to serve as a Roving Scholar to lower-secondary schools all over Norway for the next school year,” Janik said in the news release.

The grant is made possible by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership in their fields. The Fulbright program is described as the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government, and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of 160 other countries.

Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by late U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given about 360,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. Among them are 53 Nobel Prize winners.