NOTES ON PEOPLE (10/04/98)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Participates in Greek and Scythian projects

COLUMBUS, Md. - For the last five summers, Lada Onyshkevych has been supervising an archeological project on Crete (Pseira and Chrysokamino sites) and working with an archeological electronic survey team from Temple University. Her group made topographic maps and architectural drawings with the aid of infra-red beam technology and specialized computer software. She used a Mercury II solar panel; a photograph of her with the instrument was recently featured several times on the Internet.

Ms. Onyshkevych is originally from Lawrenceville, N.J., where she graduated from high school, and also completed 11 grades of The Ihor Kalynets School of Ukrainian Studies in Trenton, and then attended the 12th grade and took her "matura" (final exam) at the Philadelphia Ridna Shkola. She received her B.A. in Classical Studies followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. (1998) in Classical Archeology, all from the University of Pennsylvania, where, throughout her graduate studies, she was the recipient of the distinguished Kolb Fellowship. Her doctoral dissertation included an analysis of epigraphic material from the ancient Greek colonies of Olbia and Berezan, on the northern shore of the Black Sea, in Ukraine. The inscriptions, from the sixth to fourth centuries B.C., were on religious topics, addressing aspects of the Greek gods Apollo and Hermes and their cults. Since 1990, she has spent every summer at archeological excavations either in Greece or in Ukraine.

Currently Dr. Onyshkevych is involved in the preparation of an exhibit of Scythian gold from Ukraine (under the curatorship of Ellen Reeder of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore). The exhibit, the first of its kind in the U.S. since the 1970s, will open in the fall of 1999 at the San Antonio Museum of Art. In the spring of 2000, it will travel to the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, and thereafter to the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Dr. Onyshkevych is teaching at George Washington University and Georgetown University. Now a resident of Columbia, Md., she is married to Andriy Leshchyshyn, is a member of Plast, the Pershi Stezhi sorority and UNA Branch 287.

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