Browsing: Scholarship/Education

JENKINTOWN, Pa. – If you were in the vicinity of Fox Chase Road in this Philadelphia suburb on October 10, you likely heard the roaring cheers and loud car horns of the graduating class of Manor College. The college held its annual 2020 commencement ceremony in a different way this year.

Typically, the entire campus community, including the graduating class along with their families, joins together in the gymnasium. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the college held the 69th commencement ceremony in the parking lot in drive-in style.

BERKELEY, Calif. – Polina Lishko, Ph.D., a Ukrainian-born physiologist whose work at the University of California, Berkeley, has already led to the development of promising new non-hormonal contraceptives for women and could lead to male or unisex contraceptives, has been chosen to receive a 2020 MacArthur “genius” award.

The award comes with $625,000 in funding over five years, which Dr. Lishko, an associate professor of molecular and cell biology, will use to continue her work on reproductive physiology, including how sperm navigate the reproductive tract and the effects of aging on the female reproductive system. She was among 21 fellows announced on October 6 by the MacArthur Foundation.

KYIV – This year’s convocation at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) was the largest since the re-establishment of Kyiv Mohyla Academy in 1991. The graduation ceremony took place on Ukraine’s Constitution Day, June 28, in keeping with the university’s tradition.
Kyiv Mohyla Academy issued diplomas to 646 undergraduates, 366 master’s graduates, 58 MBAs, and four Ph.D.s.

NEW YORK – Three scholars will be visiting the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, for academic year 2019-2020, beginning in the fall 2019 semester. The program will be offering six courses and organizing several events, including a two-day conference focusing on Ukrainian cultural responses to the war between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas.

TORONTO – Oksana Kis, a feminist scholar from Ukraine, delivered a public talk, “Ukrainian Women in the Gulag: When Survival Meant Victory,” on January 31. The event was sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center and co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta and St. Vladimir Institute of Toronto. 

LVIV – The Ukrainian Catholic University recently graduated 125 master’s degree students in six fields: history, theology, human rights, non-profit management, Christian pedagogy and organization of leisure. 

LONDON – Jewish communities have lived on the territory of contemporary Ukraine since the late ninth century, yet the Jewish-Ukrainian identity is a very recent phenomenon. Jews in Ukraine who previously self-identified as Soviet Jews or Russian Jews increasingly see themselves as Ukrainian Jews, particularly following the Euro-Maidan revolution of 2013-2014.

WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) Biotech Initiative hosted its first public event in Kyiv on November 12, 2018. In a ceremony at Kyiv’s CEO Club, the foundation awarded certificates and grants to 24 emerging leaders conducting research in the biotechnology sector in Ukraine. 

NEW YORK – During the spring 2019 semester Columbia’s Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute is offering seven courses that study various aspects of Ukraine, and is organizing lectures and book presentations in Ukrainian studies at the university. Joining the program for the spring semester will be Visiting Assistant Professor of History Dr. Johannes Remy.

WASHINGTON – Heather Fielding of Purdue University will be examining the treatment of Eastern Europe in English-language literature with her students at Poltava’s Vladimir Korolenko National Pedagogical University. Joseph Kush of Duquesne University will share his experiences regarding student-centered learning methodology at Sumy State University. Brendan Hoffman, a Washington-based photo journalist who has been documenting Ukraine since the Maidan, will travel throughout Ukraine chronicling Ukrainian culture and society. Kristine Nugent of Georgetown University will be examining language education policy while with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

WHIPPANY, N.J. – At the Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) 71st annual National Convention held in Whippany, N.J., on October 4-6,…...

EDMONTON, Alberta – The boards of three Ukrainian Canadian foundations and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies announced the establishment…...