Harvard announces new scholarships for summer session (02/07/99)

Harvard announces new scholarships for summer session

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University has announced the availability of new scholarships for the 1999 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI).

Thanks to the generosity of Vira Hladun, five $1,000 tuition grants will be awarded to students in the 1999 program. All students who apply for financial aid will be considered automatically for these scholarships. Ms. Hladun, a member of the institute's visiting committee, is the founder and chair of American Friends for Ukraine, a foundation working in the areas of Ukrainian culture, education and media.

The institute will continue to offer scholarships financed by gifts from the International Renaissance Foundation, the Citicorp Foundation and the Ukrainian Studies Fund.

Vera Andrushkiw of Wayne State University will return as the director of the summer institute for a third year: Prof. Andrushkiw will also teach "Advanced Ukrainian for Business," while Natalia Shostak and Yuri Shevchuk will teach the beginning and intermediate Ukrainian language classes. George G. Grabowicz, Dmytro Cyzevskyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature at Harvard, will teach "20th Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethinking the Canon," and Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo S. Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, as well as the director of the institute, will teach "20th Century Ukraine."

A new survey course, "Ukrainian Politics and Society," will be offered especially for undergraduate students and professionals seeking a broad introduction to Ukraine and Ukrainian studies. Coordinated by Dr. James Clem, executive director of HURI, the course will offer a series of lectures by Harvard faculty and associates, as well as selected lecturers from Ukraine.

HUSI anticipates an enrollment of about 50 students for this summer's program. Of this number, it is expected that at least 15 of the students will come from Ukraine and at least five from other European countries and Canada. All the students will participate in a full cultural program that will be announced in the near future. One extracurricular activity has already been determined: Volodomyr Dibrova, writer-in-residence at the institute, will write a new play for HUSI and direct a large cast of students, faculty and staff in a presentation that will be open to the public.

For further information, write to the institute at 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; call (617) 495-7833; or send e-mail to huri@fas.harvard.edu. Applications for financial aid must be received by April 15.

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