Harvard announces Jacyk Fellowship (10/04/98)

Harvard announces Jacyk Fellowship

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University has announced the inauguration of the Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies. This new fellowship is designed to bring talented scholars and professionals of exceptional promise to Harvard University for a period of three to 10 months. While in residence, Jacyk Fellows will use the university's unique resources to work on significant and innovative projects in Ukrainian studies, and in general to further their professional development.

The first Jacyk Fellow will be selected in 1998-1999 through an international competition. The competition will be open (but not limited) to policy-makers, artists, writers and journalists, scholars and scientists.

Starting in the 1999-2000 academic year, and in successive alternating years, Jacyk Fellows will interact with the Harvard academic community through such activities as giving lectures, readings or performances, writing articles or offering classes. Their availability to travel to other North American institutions will spread awareness of Ukraine beyond Harvard to other national and international communities as well.

This fellowship is being funded through the institute by the Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation in Ontario. Mr. Jacyk, a prominent Canadian businessman who runs a successful construction and land development company, has been one of the institute's most generous benefactors. He also served on the Ukrainian Research Institute's Visiting Committee from 1980 to l986. In addition to this most recent gift, he has endowed the position of the Petro Jacyk Bibliographer in Ukrainian Studies at the library of the Ukrainian Research Institute.

Acknowledging Mr. Jacyk's gift, the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Dr. Roman Szporluk, said: "All of us at the institute are very excited about the Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies because it is very much in the spirit of the life and career of Petro Jacyk. Future Jacyk Fellows, we are sure, will uphold the same qualities of initiative, creativity and dedication to Ukrainian studies as the person for whom this fellowship is named. We feel that it will inspire some of the most promising individuals in Ukrainian studies as a challenging moment in Ukraine's history."

For further information and/or application materials, contact: Dr. James Clem, Executive Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; telephone, (617) 495-4081; fax, (617) 495-8097; e-mail, jclem@fas.harvard.edu.

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