GPSO Announces Spring 2012 Travel Award Winners

The IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO) proudly congratulates the following students as winners of the Spring 2012 Travel Award:

• Nicholas Best, History and Philosophy of Science
• Lisa Borrero, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
• Kathryn Boucher, Psychology
• Quetzal Class, Psychology
• Anne Fiala, Fine Arts
• Candice Grant, Education
• Steve Green, Psychology
• Savannah Hall, English
• Joo Hyung Kim, Political Science
• Elizabeth Konwest, Anthropology
• Yilmaz Koylu, Second Language Studies
• Gloria Maleski, Geography
• Michael Miragliotta, Music
• David Riese, Geological Sciences
• Tiffany Roman, Education
• Laura Seger, History and Philosophy of Science
• Benjamin Taylor, Music
• Ashley Viager, Education

A total of 104 IU graduate students submitted complete, valid applications, which were reviewed by the GPSO Travel Awards Committee. The GPSO Travel Award is offered through a competitive process for graduate and professional students at Indiana University Bloomington. It is given to help support travel expenses to conferences at which the student's work will be presented (i.e., speeches, posters, or interactive design), or to help support travel to workshops, special trainings, competitions, and auditions that will benefit the student professionally. Funds may be used for registration fees, presentation materials, transportation, and lodging/food associated with the conference, workshop, training, competition, or audition.

This year, the GPSO was able to offer more Travel Awards than in previous years, with a total of 36 Travel Awards for the 2011-2012 academic year, each at $500.

To learn more about GPSO Travel awards, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~gpso.


MEDIA CONTACT 
Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student Organization
http://www.indiana.edu/~gpso 
gpso@indiana.edu

Seven Doctoral Students Travel to South Korea for an IU AGEP Professional Development Tour

From the left: Leah Davis, Deidre Redmond, Dr. Yolanda Treviño, Nikole Miller, Dr. Maxine Watson, Nancy Ortiz.

This spring break, seven IU doctoral students along with University Graduate School  Dean Maxine Watson and Dean Yolanda Treviño, are headed to South Korea for a professional development tour.

Hosted by Sungkyunkwan University (http://www.skku.edu/eng/), the travelers will spend the week of March 8 to March 18, 2012, learning about the higher education system in South Korea and experiencing what it would be like to work abroad. Each student will be giving a presentation to SKKU colleagues in their discipline.

The visit is being sponsored by the IU AGEP program with the goal of increasing global literacy, gaining exposure to specialized training and practical experiences outside of the U.S., and increasing opportunities for international collaboration for a small group of advanced doctoral underrepresented minority students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

The travelers:

1. Jose Lugo Martinez
2. Lewis Jones
3. Leah Davis
4. Nikole Miller
5. Deidre Redmond
6. Nancy Ortiz
7. Alfonse, Pham

Note from the University Graduate School: We will be following along with the students as they learn about SKKU and South Korea. Look for an update and photos upon their return!

Thinking of attending IU? Chat with current IU graduate students.

The Bloomington campus for Indiana University.

A friendly reminder of the Emissaries for Graduate Student Diversity Adobe Connect Web Chat sessions.

These sessions are designed to allow prospective students to interact with current graduate student emissaries as they discuss issues that pertain to being a graduate student at IU, including:

• Why go to graduate school?
• Tips for applying to graduate school
• What being a graduate student entails
• Funding opportunities
• Community and campus resources for IU students
• Life in Bloomington 

This month’s topic is:
“Should I visit campus?”  
 

Two sessions have been scheduled for this month:

Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at 4:00pm:

• Ahmed, Political Science
• Amy, Curriculum and Instruction
• Jennifer, Criminal Justice

Saturday, March 24 at 2:00pm:

• Kuang, Biochemistry
• Claire, Anthropology
• J.T., Higher Education and Student Affairs

To participate in an online chat session, your prospective students will need follow these instructions:

1.    Go to http://breeze.iu.edu/gradchat at the scheduled time
2.    Login as a guest. Students will be able to see and hear the emissaries on their screens.
3.    Students may submit questions to the emissaries using the chat feature.

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Upcoming sessions:

Topic of the Month for April: Life in Bloomington

• Saturday, 4/14 at 1pm
• Thursday, 4/19 at 3pm

SOTL: The Why, What, and How of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Simon Brassell, Craig Nelson, George Rehrey, Carol Hostetter, David Pace, Barry Rubin

Friday, March 2, 8:30 – 1:00 pm*

Georgian Room, IMU

Indiana University 

This workshop is for anyone interested in conducting a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project. A panel of SOTL scholars will discuss their own research approaches as participants engage in conversations on SOTL research questions and methods. Key resources for conducting SOTL work will be distributed. The workshop is open to all faculty and graduate students.

Please register by February 29th at https://webdb.iu.edu/tltc/schedule/index.cfm?sch=sotl

Sponsored by: FACET at Indiana University Bloomington and The Indiana University Bloomington Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program

*lunch will be provided

Applications open for the Sara and Albert Reuben Scholarships To Support the Study of the Holocaust

The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program
at Indiana University
announces the

2012-2013
Sara and Albert Reuben Scholarships
To Support the Study of the Holocaust

Two Scholarships: One up to $3,000 and one up to $10,000.

Application deadlines:
Graduate students: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Undergraduates: Thursday, March 1, 2012

During the academic year 2012c2013, the Sara and Albert Re uben scholarships may support funding to attend Holocaust-related conferences, to do research in archives and libraries, to subsidize Holocaust-related internship, to engage in reseJrch and to support honors theses, master's theses, or a dissertation, and other academic initiatives related to the Holocaust. . The monies can only be awarded in the fall and/or spring when the recipient is a full-time student.

REQUIREMENTS: The scholarships are open to all Indiana University Bloomington undergraduate and
graduate students from any department or college on campus. Undergraduate students must have a minimum GPA of 3.4. Students must be enrolled at Indiana University Bloomington during the Spring 2012 semester (the semester of application) and continue as enrolled students during the semester or year when the scholarship funding is awarded.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please submit a proposal, budget, (undergraduates - a resume), and letter of reference to Professor Shaul Magid, Associate Director via e-mail: smagid@indiana.edu or to Professor Magid at: Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Goodbody Hall 326, 1011 E. 3rJ Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005; Phone (812) 855-0453; FAX (812) 855-4314.
Note: Jewish Studies major, certificate, and Hebrew minor students should apply using the application forms for continuing jewish Studies student scholarships and internships.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SCHOLARSHIPS: Recipients will be notified in early April, 2012 and will be recognized at the annual jewish Studies Program Student-Faculty Dinner on Sunday, Aprill5, 2012. These scholarships are a gift from Candice and Larry Reuben in memory of parents and Indianapolis residents Sara and Albert Reuben who were committed to the adva ncement of learning and research about this crucial dimension of modern history.

Opportunities for grads/postdocs related to social media, digital media, and the influences of technology.

Microsoft Research Postdocs.

Who: Newly minted/about-to-be-minted PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective

Deadline: December 12, 2011

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/15/microsoft-research-social-media-postdoc-opening/

Special issue of JOBEM on Socially-Mediated Publicness.

Who: Scholars who want to publish their work on socially-mediated publicness in a fantastic journal experimenting with open-access

Deadline: December 12, 2011 for brief abstracts; January 6, 2012 for complete articles

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/09/13/socially-mediated-publicness-a-call-for-papers/

Digital Media & Learning Summer Institute.

Who: Graduate students/young postdocs doing work touching on policy and innovation around digital media & learning

Deadline: January 9, 2012

Application & More Info:

http://dmlcentral.net/call-for-applications-2012-summer-institute-program

Microsoft Research PhD Internships.

Who: Current PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective

Deadline: January 10, 2012

More Information:

http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/11/28/social-science-phd-internships-at-microsoft-research-new-england-spring-summer-2012/

Human Trafficking & Technology Research Grants.

Who: Scholars who can research the role of tech in different facets of human trafficking

Deadline: February 17, 2012

Request for Proposals:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/education/human-trafficking-rfp.aspx

Pathways to Science: Opportunities for prospective/current graduate students and postdocs

Current and future graduate students:

• http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Grad.asp
• http://www.ibparticipation.org/pdf/REU_GRAD_Flyer.pdf  

Current and future Postdocs:

• http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Postdocs_portal.asp

Free Workshop on Publishing Research & Longer Documents in Word

IT Training Workshops are free for IU graduate students.

Thursday, October 27, 2011, 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Word 2010: Publishing Research & Longer Documents 
Information Commons room IC103
This workshop lasts 3+ hours.

To sign up, go to the IT Training Workshop site and scroll down to find the correct listing.

Intended for experienced users of Word who want to create long documents such as research papers, team project reports, books, and graduate theses or dissertations. This workshop explores the best method for structuring long documents in Word and demonstrates how to reliably assemble long documents from multiple source files. It highlights Word's advanced publishing features and automated functions, so participants will also learn how to create lists of figures and captions, a table of contents and a document index.

What You'll learn:

• create and edit an outline
• collapse, expand and relocate sections of an outline
• create and manage master documents
• create a table of contents in a master document
• create captions and lists of figures
• use advanced search options
• format and generate an index
• format footers in a master document
• print a master document 

What you need to know:

• how to use templates
• create and edit headers and footers
• insert and edit footnotes or endnotes
• work with multiple documents
• create and edit styles
• create tables of contents
• insert and modify graphics
• format text using Word shortcuts

Wimbush Selected for New Commission to Study Graduate Student Pathways

James C. Wimbush, Dean of the Indiana University Graduate School

Dean of the University Graduate School, James C. Wimbush, has been selected for a new commission to study the educational and career pathways graduate students take and recommend ways to help students move more easily from their studies into careers.

The Commission on Pathways Through Graduate School and Into Careers, is being created by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service. In addition to Dean Wimbush, the commission includes leadership from academia and business. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the commission is tasked with examining how much graduate students know about their career options once they obtain their degrees, and how students learn about their professional opportunities after graduation and the role of graduate programs in guiding students in their transition to a career.

The findings will be disclosed in a report next spring.

Graduate Student of the Month: Stacey Jacobsen

Dr. Stacey Jacobsen is a recent graduate of the IU Kelley School of Business.

Stacey Jacobsen
IU Kelley School of Business, Department of Finance
August 2011

Recently graduated doctoral student Stacey Jacobsen from the IU Kelley School of Business, Department of Finance, investigated the private incentives of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), showing that the market attaches a high value to CEOs who restrain from activities that increase their private benefits.

After graduating with an undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University in Ft Worth, Texas, Dr. Jacobsen worked at an investment bank where she was involved with corporate finance activities such as mergers, acquisitions and IPOs.

“The president of the investment banking division was very interested in financial research and pushed the analysts to read academic literature, which is kind of unusual for practitioners because usually only academics read academic literature,” she said. “But I knew at some point in my career, to get to the next step in the corporate world, I was going to have to get an MBA or go to school in some form. By then I’d become interested in the research, so I gave in and decided to get a Ph.D. after years of swearing I wouldn’t.”

Dr. Jacobsen came to IU specifically to work with Dr. Utpal Bhattacharya, who became her advisor and chair of her research committee. “He believes you should ask interesting, important questions that are relevant beyond academia—issues that we care about in our everyday lives,” she said. “I thought that was something neat.”

“His test for an interesting research question is ‘Tell your mom the idea, and if she doesn’t understand it or she doesn’t find it interesting then it’s a bad idea. Do the same with your grandma and so on.’ And because of that his research is cited often and it’s always exciting,” she said.

The idea for Dr. Jacobsen’s dissertation came from her coursework and her corporate experience.

“[In business school,] you take these corporate finance classes and most of the research assumes that managers and CEOs are all homogenous. They’re basically robots. If you give two CEOs the same compensation contract, and the same monitoring by the board of directors and shareholders, they’ll always make the same decisions. Very little research has considered the idea that these CEOs have idiosyncrasies that might affect their decision making,” Dr. Jacobsen said.

“So I thought back to my days in investment banking and working on corporate finance, and my experience that you came across very different personalities in CEOs. Some of these guys had huge egos, whereas others were very cautious—maybe they grew up in the Depression—and others were always thinking about ethical and moral consequences.”

“I started to wonder if these idiosyncrasies mattered in terms of a corporate finance setting. Do investors care about these idiosyncratic incentives? Do they value that information? We talk in finance about things we can incentivize CEOs with, like compensation contracts, which we can monitor and control, but there are characteristics that can’t be controlled that will affect how a CEO makes decisions.”

Dr. Jacobsen looked at CEOs who cancel acquisition deals, or mergers, because they are too expensive. CEOs have incentives to complete these acquisitions, she said, because their pay is directly tied to the size of the firm. Each time a CEO completes a merger, s/he increases the size of the firm and thus the CEO’s compensation.

“So, it tells us something very valuable about the CEO that is willing to forgo this and cancel a deal because it’s bad for shareholders. [Looking at these canceled deals] allows me to disentangle one very specific idiosyncratic incentive, which I call ‘restraint’ or ‘discipline.’” A CEO shows ‘restraint’ by canceling a deal, she said.

To understand if the market values this characteristic she does two tests.

First, Dr. Jacobsen looks at the capital market response, or how the stock market reacts to the announcement of the cancellation. She found a significant increase in the firm's share price in the days surrounding the cancellation announcement.

Second, she looks at the labor market perspective. Dr. Jacobsen found that CEOs who show ‘restraint’ have better career prospects. These CEOs are significantly less likely to be fired and more likely to move onto better jobs, meaning they are more likely to become CEOs at bigger public firms.

Bad CEOs would have done the deal even if it was expensive, Dr. Jacobsen said.

“I think it’s interesting because in the last ten years everyone has been seeing these revelations of CEOs committing fraud, or going to jail or paying themselves too much. So this is a nice revelation of a CEO doing something good, something right,” she said.

She begins as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University this month.

Media Contacts:
Erika Lee, Director of Communications, The University Graduate School, ebigalee@indiana.edu
Anna Saraceno, The IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization, gpso@indiana.edu

The Graduate and Professional Student Organization and the University Graduate School would like to congratulate Stacey Jacobsen on receiving the GPSO/UGS Recognition Award. Students selected for this award were nominated by a faculty member from within their department, and selected by the GPSO and UGS for excellence in their graduate studies at Indiana University. 

Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship Awarded to IU Graduate Student Wasantha Jayawardene

(from the left) Santosh Jain's son; Wasantha Jayawardene, 2011 award winner;
Mr. Chaman Jain, a senior lecturer in SPEA and husband of the late Santosh Jain Endowed; Ahmed YoussefAgha, assistant professor in applied health sciences

Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship
Wasantha Jayawardene, 2011 Award Winner
Doctoral candidate in Health Behavior
Department of Applied Health Science

IU Doctoral student Wasantha Jayawardene from the Department of Applied Health Science is the winner of the first ever Santosh Jain Endowed Memorial Scholarship.

The $5,000 annual award offers financial support to a current international graduate student who has demonstrated commitment to service and education and plans to pursue a service-oriented career. The recipient will possess a track record of service to under-served or rural communities, humanitarian causes, or educational organizations in activities that support an improvement in the lives and opportunities to those in impoverished communities.

Award winner Jayawardene fits that description well. His advisers describe his as having a strong passion for serving disadvantaged populations, especially in terms of access to health care and his research focuses on health promotion of low income social groups and ethnic minorities through school health activities. Jayawardene is dedicated to his research, but he also possesses a background filled with experience working as a medical doctor in a rural hospital, as a medical office in health sector planning, and as a regional epidemiologist at the district level in Sri Lanka. His training is international and he is able to speak English, Russian, Tamil, and Sinhala.

“I strongly believe that our health care systems do not reach the social periphery, effectively utilize the available resources or get the full participation of disadvantaged populations,” Jayawardene said. “It has inflexible procedures and styles, is not people oriented, and overlooks the cultural and social aspects of disease, which ultimately demands more studies and researches to rectify. My ultimate goals are to study unexplored aspects of health issues in disadvantaged populations in order to utilize that knowledge to develop interventions. Gaining knowledge and research experience is an essential step to reach these goals, which is the reason for me to set my heart upon a research and academic career in HPER.”

The scholarship honors the memory of Chaman Jain's wife, who was well known among international graduate students. Chaman Jain, a senior lecturer in SPEA, said he and his children felt very strongly that this is the way to continue her vision to support education.

For more information on the award: http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/pdf/Santosh_Jain.pdf

Canadian Studies Grant Program: Opportunity for faculty and doctoral students

Opportunity for faculty and doctoral students:

The Canadian Government, through the Embassy in Washington, DC and its Consulates throughout the United States, supports research, conferences, teaching, and program activity related to Canada and/or Canada-U.S. relations. The Canadian Studies Grant Program encourages comparative research and teaching, faculty exchanges, student mobility, and collaboration between American and Canadian researchers. We also seek to build stronger ties between American and Canadian universities and colleges.

We are particularly interested in projects that have policy relevance for Canada and Canada-U.S. relations.

Such topics include:

• North American economic competitiveness
• Energy and environments
• Security
• Arctic issues

You, your colleagues, and students may be interested in one of the following grant programs:

Faculty Research Grant Program assists individual scholars or teams of scholars in writing an article-length manuscript of publishable quality with a focus on Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. Applications due: November 1, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/research-recherche.aspx?lang=eng

Conference Grant Program supports conferences that address important and timely issues about Canada or Canada-U.S. relations. It is designed to assist an institution in holding a conference and publishing the resulting papers and proceedings in a scholarly fashion. Applications due: June 30, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/conference.aspx?lang=eng

Doctoral Student Research Award offers doctoral students an opportunity to conduct part of their dissertation research in Canada. The program is intended for students whose dissertations are related in substantial part to the study of Canada. Applications due: December 1, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/doctoral-doctorat.aspx?lang=eng

Faculty Enrichment Program provides faculty members an opportunity to develop or update a course with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load. Applications due: December 1, 2011.
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/enrichment-complement.aspx?lang=eng

In 2010-11, the Canadian Studies Grant Program provided support to faculty, researchers, and graduate students at institutions across the U.S. More than 80 projects were funded on a wide range of topics and in many disciplines. Here is a list of recent grant recipients and their projects.

For complete Grant Guidelines and information about our other grant programs, please visit:
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/washington/studies-etudes/programs-programmes.aspx?lang=eng

Prospective applicants are encouraged to discuss their interest in the grant program with a Canadian government officer in their area.

We would like to encourage faculty and students to sign up for Canada Watch, a bi-weekly summary of the publications and commentaries from Canadian think tanks and research centers on a wide range of Canadian and Canada-U.S. issues and NewsCan, a weekly summary of news from Canada.

We appreciate your interest in Canadian Studies and thank you for sharing this information about the Canadian Studies Grant Program with your colleagues and students.

Michael Brown
Associate, Research and Academic Relations
Associé, Recherche et relations académiques
Embassy of Canada | Ambassade du Canada
501 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Tel: (202) 682-7727
michael.brown@international.gc.ca

We invite you to visit www.Connect2Canada.com, a virtual network for Canadians and friends of Canada in the United States.

SAA Opening: Evaluating & Improving Financial Literacy among Graduate Assistants

Application Deadline: June 15, 2011
SAA Start Date: August 1, 2011

University Human Resources is seeking a Graduate Assistant to conduct a two year research and analysis project related to evaluating and improving the level of financial literacy of IU’s Graduate Assistants.

This project is funded by the TIAA-CREF Institute and the target audience would be approximately 4400 IU Graduate Assistants and post-docs (3800 at Bloomington, 600 at IUPUI). Suggested research will involve measuring and analyzing financial literacy that results from education as well as the impact of framing the concept of lifetime savings. This project may include a cross-disciplinary approach with TIAA-CREF Institute fellows from other Institutions including Dartmouth and Boston College.

Successful candidates will have project management experience, education and/or work experience in Finance or a related field, and may be pursuing a graduate degree from the Kelley School of Business or the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The expectation is that this position will work 15-20 hours per week; remuneration includes a $1,250 monthly stipend ($12,500 annual equivalent over 10 months) and health insurance. This position reports to the Associate Vice President of University Human Resources.

Questions may be directed to April Underwood at UHRS: underwoo@indiana.edu or 812-856-6835. Please send a letter of application, resume and contact information for 3 references to: underwoo@indiana.edu.

The IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO) announces 2011 Research Award winners

THE IU GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION (GPSO) ANNOUNCES
2011 Research Award Winners

Each year the GPSO aids graduate students by providing financial support for research projects. Recipients are selected through a competitive, merit-based process in which an independent panel of fellow graduate and professional students review and assess anonymous applications. The GPSO would like to congratulate the following award recipients:


2011 GPSO Research Award Winners:
Amy Gray, Geography
Jeremy Young, History
Jessica Hite, Biology
Lyra Spang, Anthropology
Ryan Brasher, Political Science
Cody Behles, Central Eurasian Studies

The Graduate and Professional Student Organization is the formally recognized government for graduate and professional students at Indiana University Bloomington. More information about GPSO Research Awards can be found at http://www.iu.edu/~gpso/Research-Grants.php. 

Released April 11th, 2011

Contact Information:
Angela Jones, GPSO Communications Coordinator
gpso@indidana.edu
803 8th St , Bloomington, IN 47408
www.iu.edu/~gpso

Four Department of English grads to share career paths at panel discussion April 13

April 4, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- So, what can you do with an English degree?

Four recent graduates of Indiana University's Department of English will return to campus Wednesday, April 13, for a 5 p.m. panel discussion about their current careers. This free, open-to-the-public discussion will take place at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, room A201.

The discussion, titled "Working with Public and Professional Writing: What Four Recent English Graduates are Doing with Their Degrees," was arranged by IU Assistant Professor of English Dana Anderson, coordinator for the department's Professional Writing program.

"They will discuss the different professional opportunities they've been able to pursue given their training in English and professional writing," Anderson said.

"Even in these difficult economic times, these students have managed to find different kinds of successes with their English degrees, and it will be engaging to hear the counsel they might have about life after graduation."

Participating alums are:

• Kyle Kartz, a freelance writer;
• Nicholas Parks, language arts and special education teacher at Imagine Life Sciences Academy East in Indianapolis;
• Sara Richart, a student in University of Cincinnati's Accelerated Pathways Graduate Nursing Program; and
• Rachael Tunick, human capital consultant for Deloitte Consulting, LLP.

The alums will discuss their current pursuits in the world beyond academics and the ways in which their training in English prepared them for these opportunities.

Anderson hopes to start a series with perhaps one panel per semester if this program is successful.

Light refreshments will be provided. Current and prospective English majors are especially encouraged to participate.

For more information on the IU Department of English, see http://www.indiana.edu/~engweb/index.shtml.

IU students well represented among international fellowship and scholarship recipients

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/16926.html

Jan. 13, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Students from Indiana University Bloomington received more than 35 nationally competitive awards that sent them to study in countries around the world last summer and during the 2010-2011 academic year.

The awards are sponsored by a number of agencies including the Departments of State and Education, the National Security Education Program (NSEP), the Marshall and Rhodes programs of the United Kingdom, the American Scandinavian Foundation and the German-American Exchange Service. The majority of the grantees are pursuing research projects in a range of disciplines around the world while other awards fund participation in guided programs such as language training, academic study abroad or working as an English teaching assistant.
Brendan Faegre

Brendan Faegre (left) from the IU Jacobs School of Music works with Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

Among the research award grantees are nine recipients of Fulbright Hays and Fulbright U.S. Student grants that are sponsored, respectively, by the Department of Education and the Department of State. Fulbright Hays grantees conduct dissertation research in countries outside of Western Europe. The destinations for this year's recipients are Mali, Russia, South Africa, Ghana and Israel. Two Fulbright U.S. Student recipients are currently conducting research in Morocco and Germany, and another will start teaching English in Argentina this month.

Research awards granted to IU students also include NSEP-sponsored Boren Fellowships to Brazil and Syria, an American Scandinavian Foundation fellowship to Norway, German-American Exchange Service awards to Germany, an American Councils award to Russia, an IREX research grant to former Yugoslavian countries and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to South Africa.

Other activities of student award recipients support intensive language training or directed study programs. Eight IU students received State Department-sponsored Critical Language Scholarships during the summer of 2010. These graduate and undergraduate students traveled to countries in the Middle East, Central Asia, Russia and India to participate in intensive study in languages critical to the United States including Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hindi and Russian.

Other recipients of directed grants include 13 undergraduates who received Gilman and Boren Scholarships which support a semester or a full academic year of study abroad in countries outside of Western Europe.

Indiana University students are consistently represented in top competitions for scholarships to universities in the United Kingdom. William Yu was named one of 40 Marshall Scholars and is currently in his second year of study in the United Kingdom pursuing degrees at the Imperial College of London. Two IU students have also recently been named Rhodes Scholars. Mutsa Mutembwa was named a 2010 scholar and is currently at the University of Oxford, and Esther Uduehi was named a scholar for 2011.

"We honor the hard work and determination exhibited by these students and congratulate them on their accomplishments," said Patrick O'Meara, IU vice president of international affairs. "These students bring back detailed research results that advance their respective disciplines. Their extensive periods spent abroad and increased language abilities contribute to our collective efforts to better understand and interact with other cultures."

Below is a list of IU students awarded international grants from summer 2010 through the current academic year. The list is ordered alphabetically by name of award and includes name, primary course of study and destination country.

American Councils Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Award
Joanna Matuszak -- Art History, Russia

American Scandinavian Foundation
Brendan Faegre -- Music Composition, Norway

Boren Fellowships
Gregory Auclair -- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Syria
Timothy Thompson -- Library and Information Science, Brazil

Boren Scholarships
Bethany Muncy -- East Asian Languages and Cultures, Japan
Luke Martineac -- Business, China

Critical Language Scholarships (for intensive language study during summer 2010)
Lennea Carty -- Central Eurasian Studies, Turkey (Turkish)
John Dechant -- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Tajikistan (Persian)
Jessica Evans -- Folklore and Ethnomusicology, India (Hindi)
Jamie Johnson -- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Egypt (Arabic)
Nicholas Kontovas -- Central Eurasian Studies, Turkey (Turkish)
Niels Lee -- History, Turkey (Turkish)
Christopher Roush -- Russian and East European Studies, Russia (Russian)
Anne Vithayathil -- History, Tajikistan (Persian)

Fulbright U.S. Student Awards
Jacqueline Cornetta -- English Teaching Assistant, Argentina
Ahmed Khanani -- Political Science, Morocco
Joel Klein -- Cultural and Intellectual History, Germany

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Awards
Jessica Hurd -- Art History, Mali
Joanna Matuszak -- Art History, Russia
Megan Musgrave -- History, Russia
Fileve Palmer -- Anthropology, South Africa
Fred Pratt -- History, Ghana
Karen Ross -- Education, Israel

German American Exchange Service Awards (DAAD)
Joo Hyung Kim -- Political Science, Germany
Sibyl Kleiner -- Sociology, Germany

Gilman Scholarships
Kayla Douglas -- African American and African Diaspora Studies, Ghana
Olivia Holloway -- Arts and Sciences, Brazil
Jamie Johnson -- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Jordan
Justin Martinson -- Communication and Culture, Germany
Bethany Muncy -- East Asian Languages and Cultures, Japan
David Osborn -- Business, Ghana
Genevieve Postlethwait -- Journalism, China
Olivia Schmidt -- Biology, Italy
Richard Scinteie -- Communication and Culture, Spain
Emily Spiegel -- Sport Marketing and Management, South Africa
Chelsea Todd -- International Studies, Brazil

IREX Individual Advanced Research Grant
Ramajana Hidic-Demirovic -- History, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
Fileve Palmer -- Anthropology, South Africa