NOTES ON PEOPLE (10/14/01)

NOTES ON PEOPLE

Fulbright grant takes student to Ukraine

NEW YORK - Adriana Helbig of Columbia University has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Ukraine from January to December 2002.

The Fulbright Program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and the rest of the world. It was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, and is sponsored by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

Ms. Helbig is a faculty fellow completing her fifth year in the doctoral program in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. An instructor in Columbia's Music Humanities Program, she successfully completed the requirements for the Master of Philosophy degree in the spring of 2001 and the Master of Arts degree in the spring of 1999.

Ms. Helbig is presently conducting dissertation research focusing on the semiotics of movement and the negotiation of power in Romany (Gypsy) dance.

While most of her research during her year abroad will be conducted in Roma communities in Transcarpathia, her research position as a visiting scholar will be at the Lysenko Conservatory of Music in Lviv.

Along with Dr. Fedir Andrash, the most outspoken Roma leader in the fight for Roma human rights in Ukraine, Ms. Helbig participated in this summer's Roma Holocaust Remembrance Camp in Tarnow, Poland.

Pennsylvanian studies in Spain

MC ADOO, Pa. - Monica J. Slovik, a native of McAdoo, Pa., is a Benjamin A. Rush Scholar at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Her major at the college is international business and management.

Ms. Slovik is a member of Delta Nu Sorority and the Dickinson Dance Theater Group.

For two full semesters she will continue her studies at the University of Malaga, Los Cursos Para Extranjeros in Malaga, Spain.

Ms. Slovik, her parents and siblings are all members of Ukrainian National Association Branch 7.

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