Community Service Announcements

Annual Competition for Fullbright Grants

Contact: U.S. Student Program

(212) 984-5327

The United States Information Agency (USIA), the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Institute of International Education (IIE) announce the official opening on May 1, 1998 of the 1999-2000 competition for Fulbright Grants for graduate study or research abroad in academic fields and for professional training in the creative and performing arts.

For all grants, applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and hold a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent by the beginning date of the grant. Creative and performing artists are not required to have a bachelor’s degree, but they must have four years of relevant training or study. Candidates in medicine must have and M.D. or equivalent (e.g., D.D.S., O.D., etc.) at the time of applications.

All applicants are required to have sufficient proficiency in the language of the host country to carry out their proposed study or research.

Fulbright Full Grants provide round-trip international travel, maintenance for the duration of the grant, a research allowance, and tuition waivers, if applicable. Fulbright Travel Grants provide round-trip travel to the country where the student will pursue study or research. They are intended to supplement maintenance awards from other sources that do not provide funds for international travel or an applicant’s personal funds. All grants include supplemental health and accident insurance.

Complete program and application information is contained in the brochure, "Fulbright and related grants for graduate study and research abroad, 1999-2000" and on IIE’s website, www.iie.org/fulbright.

Museum of Heritage Thursday Evening Series

To illustrate the richness and complexity of Jewish life in the 20th Century, the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, has scheduled a series of thought-provoking evening events in its landmark new facility in Lower Manhattan. The "Thursday Evening Series" will kick off on Thursday, March 19th, and continue throughout the year.

Building upon the Museum’s mission to educate people of all ages and backgrounds, the events will offer an engaging public dialogue on a broad range of issues from ancient archeology to 20th Century literature. The majority of the events will begin at 6:00pm and take place in the Museum’s 3rd floor Overlook Gallery which commands stunning vistas of Lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and New York Harbor

March 26th, 8:00pm, at The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd Street.

A panel of pre-eminent writers, including E.L. Doctorow and Susan Sontag and actor Christopher Plummer, will re-examine the work of groundbreaking Czech-Jewish author Franz Kafka. Presented in conjunction with the PEN American Center. $10 general admission at the Town Hall box office or TicketMaster. For more info. call (212) 334-1660.

April 23 – Yom Hashoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. Survivors, their children and Museum artifact donors will be available to recount their diverse and moving stories.

May 7 – A lecture and book launching reception in honor of the publication of Arthur Hertzberg’s latest book, Jews: The Essence and Character of a People. Currently the Bronfman Visiting Professor of the Humanities at New York University, Rabbi Hertzberg has authored over a dozen books on the subjects of Zionism and Jewish identity, many of which have long been regarded as classics.

British Studies at Oxford – Summer Program

July 25 – August 14

For the 26th consecutive year, Oakland University in conjunction with the University of Detroit Mercy is offering British Studies at Oxford. The setting for this idyllic, credit-bearing program is Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

The program offers tuition, private room, full board during the week, excursions to London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Coventry and other sites, theatre tickets, and visits to world famous museums. The three-week session offers three or four credits for $2995, including tuition, but excluding air fare. The six-week session offers six or eight credits for $5650 including airfare. Most courses offered by Oxford tutors include Art History, Architecture, Business Management, Communications, Education, History, three literature classes – Chaucer, Drama: Plays in Performance, and British Detective Fiction, -- and British Politics. Courses may be taken for undergraduate or graduate credit or may be audited. Universities and colleges accept these credits as applicable toward degrees.

For further information write or call Dr. Margaret B. Pigott, 322 Wilson Hall, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401. Telephone (248) 652-3405 or (248) 370-4131; Fax: (248) 650-9107; E-mail: pigott@oakland.edu, www.Oakland.edu/oxford or Dr. Edward J. Wolff, Department of English, University of Detroit Mercy, P.O. Box 19900, Detroit, Michigan 48219-0900. Telephone (313) 993-1082 or (248) 652-3405; Fax: (248) 650-9107.