Professor David Kehoe, a member of the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected for the Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar Award to Spain in academic year 2026-2027. Dr. Kehoe will be joining the faculty at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, to assist in the development of their newly created Marine Biotechnology Program. This will include teaching both molecular biology and biotechnology to students in the program as well as collaborating in the development of novel, impactful marine biotechnology products.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange initiative. It advances knowledge and innovation, fosters solutions to complex global challenges, and promotes peaceful relations between the United States and other nations. Fulbright recipients have served as heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet ministers, CEOs, and university presidents, as well as leading journalists, artists, scientists, and teachers. Fulbright alumni have earned 63 Nobel Prizes, 98 Pulitzer Prizes, 83 MacArthur Fellowships, among many other honors.
Dr. Kehoe received his Ph.D. from The University of California, Los Angeles, and conducted his postdoctoral research at Stanford University before joining the faculty at IU Bloomington. He was the recipient of an Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute/U.S. National Academy of Sciences Education Fellow in the Life Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. His research is focused on light regulated signal transduction in marine cyanobacteria of global ecological importance. Dr. Kehoe’s research has helped change how we think about the ability of bacteria to sense and respond to light color.
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