NOTES ON PEOPLE (07/17/05)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Named fellow of Radcliffe Institute

AMHERST, Mass. - Dr. Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the department of finance and operations management at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, has been selected as a Radcliffe Institute fellow for the 2005-2006 academic year.

While at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. Nagurney and the 50 other fellows will work on projects ranging from pipeline issues in higher education to cancer treatments and installation art on the theme of loss. Some will work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Together, the fellows' distinguished academic, professional and creative endeavors are the center of a scholarly community convened to pursue and generate new knowledge.

Dr. Nagurney's project is titled "Dynamic Networks with Applications: The Unified Theory of Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities."

"The purpose of a residential fellowship like ours is to bring artists and scholars together to interact in ways that will change both them and their work," said Dean Drew Gilpin Faust. "We strive to offer enough similarity - clusters of common intellectual concern - and enough difference to generate intersections that are predictable as well as ones that are unanticipated and even surprising."

This year's pool of 782 fellowship applicants was evaluated by two levels of review. In the first level, at least two leaders in each applicant's field evaluated and ranked the applicant. The top 140 applicants were then submitted to the final selection committee, which selected the diverse class of 2005-2006 fellows. This year's 51 fellows, 40 women and 11 men, come from 42 different institutions and include three international fellows from three different countries.

Receives award from Patriarch Filaret

PARMA, Ohio - Ever since the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine emerged from the underground, the Rev. Msgr. Mitred Archpriest Michael B. Rewtiuk, pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Parma, Ohio, and vicar general of the eparchy, has been instrumental in helping to repair old churches, build new ones, provide cars, sponsor seminarians, supply liturgical accouterments, etc.

On his most recent visit to Ukraine - his seventh - on July 15-24, he traveled with his mother, Anna Severyn, to Kyiv to participate in the blessing of the St. Anne Altar in the Basilian Monastery which he sponsored in honor of his mother. They also traveled to Zolochiv to see St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, whose construction was almost totally funded by Msgr. Rewtiuk, his parishioners and friends.

Having heard from clergy and laity about the monsignor's fostering of cordial relationships and ecumenical ties with the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy and faithful in the Cleveland-Parma area, as well as in Ukraine, Patriarch Filaret invited Msgr. Rewtiuk and his mother to his residence in Kyiv on June 18.

The patriarch and the monsignor exchanged gifts. The patriarch gave him an autographed copy of the new Ukrainian translation of the Bible, which was translated by Patriarch Filaret himself and approved by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Monsignor's mother received an autographed copy of a Ukrainian prayer book published by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate. Msgr. Rewtiuk presented Patriarch Filaret with two books published by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Parma on the occasion of the Millennium of Christianity in 1988 (a pictorial directory and history of every parish and priest in the eparchy and "Molod Khrystovi," 1933-1988).

Patriarch Filaret then presented Msgr. Rewtiuk with the Order of St. Michael the Archangel and a certificate stating that the medal has been given to him for his role in the rebirth of spirituality in Ukraine, and patriotic and ecumenical activities.

Afterwards the patriarch treated the monsignor and his mother to coffee and sweets, during which time an informal conversation took place regarding the future and eventual reunion of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

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