Hursky Ukrainian Fellowship

 

Syracuse University is pleased to announce the competition for the Jacob
and Valentina Hursky Ukrainian Graduate Fellowship for 2005. This
prestigious award promotes the scholarly study of Ukrainian topics at
Syracuse University, which is located in New York State, in the United
States of America. It is the wish of the creators of this award to
encourage Ukrainian citizens or Americans of Ukrainian descent to pursue
graduate-level study at Syracuse University in order to promote a better
understanding of Ukraine and the challenges it faces. It also is their
wish that the studies made possible by this fellowship should promote
ongoing change for the better in Ukraine.

Syracuse University is world-renowned for many of its graduate programs.
The Hursky Fellowship establishes as its highest priority studies in
Ukrainian culture that would be undertaken in one of the following
fields at Syracuse.

Anthropology
Art History (Fine Arts)
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
Creative Writing
Economics
Geography
History
International Relations
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Philosophy
Psychology
Public Administration
Religion
Social Science (interdisciplinary)
Sociology

The Hursky Fellowship includes a stipend of at least $10,000 and a
tuition scholarship for 24 credits of coursework (eight courses) for the
academic year and the following summer.

We strongly encourage educational advisors to share this information
widely. We enthusiastically invite eligible students to apply. Further
information is available at the Hursky Fellowship web site at.
http://gradsch.syr.edu/student/hursky/index.htm.

Those involved with the Hursky Fellowship program extend our warmest
wishes to all Ukrainians at this exciting time of rebirth for Ukraine.
(We are pleased to point out that the official color of Syracuse
University is, coincidentally, orange!) We have you in our thoughts
constantly and wish you every success.