February 12, 2020Name: Margarita M. Balmaceda Hometown: Cambridge/Somerville, MA Current Position: Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University and Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) Professional Interests: Comparative Politics, Energy Policy, Infrastructure, Governance, Corruption, Trans-border trade, Ukrainian-EU Relations Why did you decide to join the Shevchenko Scientific Society? I wanted ... Continue reading
January 16, 2020Well-known entrepreneur, philanthropist, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Helen Woskob died peacefully at home surrounded by her family at the age of 89 on Ukrainian Christmas Eve on January 6, 2020. The day is one of the holiest holidays for Ukrainians. Above all else, Helen was devoted to her family ... Continue reading
December 17, 2019Maria Rewakowicz, Lecturer of Ukrainian at Rutgers University, won the Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies for her book, Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011. This monograph concentrates on major works of literature produced during the first two decades of independence and places them against ... Continue reading
December 13, 2019Lev Chaban, Jurij Dobczansky, Halyna Hryn, and Marko Slyz participated in the sixth conference of the Ukrainian Heritage Consortium of North America (UHCNA) hosted by Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) on October 17-20, 2019. The UHCNA is a voluntary group that coordinates an exchange of information, fosters friendships and ... Continue reading
December 12, 2019Name: Iryna Zenyuk Hometown: Irvine, CA (originally from Ivano-Frankivsk) Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine Professional Interests: renewable energy technologies Why did you decide to join the Shevchenko Scientific Society? I am a member of several professional science and engineering societies. The Shevchenko ... Continue reading
December 11, 2019The Biomedical Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States established the Dobzhansky Genetics Club and held its inaugural meeting on November 2, 2019. The main goal of the newly formed club is to stimulate an academic discussion of cutting-edge research in genetics and foster a dialogue among Ukrainian ... Continue reading
December 9, 2019On November 23, 2019, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) held a business meeting at the 2019 annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), leading international organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The ... Continue reading
October 27, 2019On 21 November 2019 the Department of Music at the University of New Haven will hold a remembrance event, honoring Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity and commemorating Holodomor. Victor Markiw, lecturer of music, and his colleagues organize this event.Continue reading
October 18, 2019Vasyl Makhno. Eternal Calendar (Lviv, Ukraine: Old Lion Publishing, 2019. 624 pp.). In an interview after the publication of this novel, Vasyl Makhno said that he had wanted to write an epic work about small places and to depict the particular “dirt of life.” The events in this massive novel ... Continue reading
October 17, 2019 Nathaniel Pickett, KU Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and a Fulbright alumnus, presents at the Fulbright PDO in June 2019 on his experience conducting dissertation research while on a Fulbright fellowship in Ukraine. On July 21-26, 2019, the University of Kansas hosted the Fulbright Pre-Departure Orientation (PDO) ... Continue reading
