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Ukrainian Brain Bee
November 20, 2021 Source: Ukrainian Brain Bee/Facebook. In the Fall of 2019, the Medicine and Biology Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society gave a $2,000 grant to the Ukrainian Brain Bee (UBB), a neuroscience competition for high school students. The grant supported grassroots efforts of Ukrainian neuroscientists who volunteered ... Continue reading
Member of the Month: Laada Bilaniuk
November 20, 2021Hometown: Seattle, WA Current Position: Professor of Anthropology, the University of Washington, Seattle Professional Interests: linguistic anthropology, language politics, popular culture, identity and nation-building in Ukraine Why did you decide to join the Shevchenko Scientific Society? The activities of the Shevchenko Scientific Society were frequently discussed in my home when ... Continue reading
Nominating Committee Announcement
November 15, 2021The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA will hold a general election for the presidency and board of the organization. After several delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the General Meeting will take place in person at the Society’s headquarters in New York City on December 18, 2021. All members ... Continue reading
Letter from the President
October 28, 2021To: Full and Corresponding Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US Dear Colleagues, It was with great disappointment that I read the letter circulated privately by Shevchenko Scientific Society member Bohdan Vitvitsky, full of accusations leveled against me personally and innuendo about academic projects central to our Society’s ... Continue reading
Archival Research on Ukrainian Artists in Germany and the USA
October 26, 2021As a doctoral student at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, I am preparing a comparative study on post-war Ukrainian diasporan art in Germany and North America, based on examples of the works of three artists – Sviatoslav Hordynsky (1906-1993), Edward Kozak (EKO) ... Continue reading
New Publication: Papers of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. New Series, Volumes 2-3 (2021)
October 24, 2021The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA is proud to announce the publication of the Papers of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. New Series, Volume 2-3 (2021). The bilingual double volume is available on our website to read online or download, and print copies are being mailed out to Society members. ... Continue reading
Member of the Month: Katya Vasilaky
October 15, 2021Hometown: San Luis Obispo, CA Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University; Research Affiliate at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University Professional Interests: experimental and development economics, regularization methods (ridge regression/tikhanov) and the inverse problem that address ... Continue reading
30 Years of Independence: Our Members Reflect
August 24, 2021On behalf of the Board of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., I extend my sincere greetings on the occasion of Ukrainian Independence Day—year 30 of this latest iteration of Ukrainian statehood, conferred on August 24, 1991. As we know, these have been difficult times for Ukraine. It is ... Continue reading
Letter from the President
