Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1980 (8. évfolyam, 23-26. szám)

1980 / 23-24. szám

Maria Lengyel, sen. research fel low and chief of the Echocardiography Laboratory, Inst, of Cardiology. 5 months at the Cardiovascular Division, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, with brief visits to other research centers in cardiology. Echocardiographic study of the left ventricular function in ischaemic heart disease by M-mode and crosssectional echocardiography.

Ernő Szarka, sen. research fellow, Pilot Plant Division, Research Inst, for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 10 months at the School of Pharmacy, U. of Wisconsin; and the Dept, of Nutrition and Food Science, MIT. The response of a bacitracin-producing fermentation to aeration with oxygenencriched air.

Edit Vas, research assist. 2'A months at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Collection of documentary materials for a biography of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, 1919-1944.

Zoltán Vas, writer. 2'A months at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Collection of documentary materials for a Horthy-biography.

Aladár Urban,docent, Dept.of Modern History,Eötvös Loránd U. Research for a book on the American constitution for Hungarian university students. (Withdrew.)

GRANTS FOR COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES AND NEW EXCHANGES, 1978-1979

Anna Balakian, prof, and chairman, Dept, of Comparative Literature, New York U. Travel to György Vajda, chairman, Dept, of Comparative Literature, U. of Szeged, to teach a course at NYU on the interrelations of European literature and art. (June-July 1979)

Dennis Campbell, director of European Programs, McGeorge School of Law, Salzburg. Per diem funds to support three East European scholars conducting research on topics in American law: Karoly Bárd, School of Law, Eötvös Loránd U.; Rajkó Pirnat, School of Law, U. of Lubljana; and Stanislaw Waltos7, School of Law, Jagellonian U. Krakow. (September 1979)

Daniel DiCicco, prof., Dept, of Music, Indiana U. of Pennslyania. Travel for two American scholars to Hungary, and a return visit by two Hugarian scholars, in conjunction with a comparative study of musical instruments, as well as a general study of music education techniques in Hungary and the U.S. (Scholars unable to travel; grant cancelled.)

Stephen Fischer-Galati, prof, of history, director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, U of Colorado. Travel funds for American participants in a conference on continuity and social change in American, Romanian, and East European history since the 18th century, held at Babes- Bolyai U. (August 1979)

Lewis Hanke, prof, emeritus, Dept, of History, U. of Massachusetts. Travel to Hungary for consultation on a Guide to the Study of U.S. History Outside the UnitedStates, 1945-1980. (October 1980)

John M. Headley, prof., Dept, of History, U. of North Carolina. Travel for Mihály Bucsay of the Theological Academy of the Reformed Church of Hungary, to lecture at UNC and to participate in the 14th International Congress of Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan U. (Scholar unable to come; grant cancelled.)

Marida Hollos, prof., Dept, of Anthropology, Brown U. Travel to Hungary to consult with members of the Ethnographic Research Group, HAS, on a volume of articles on agricultural

cooperatives in Hungary. (July 1979)

Bela Király, prof., Dept, of History, Brooklyn Coll., CUNY. Travel for East European scholars to attend the second conference on War and Society in East Central Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries, held in New York. (December 1979) Thomas Winner, prof., Dept, of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Brown U. Travel funds for American scholars to attend a planning conference in Budapest for an international project, an Encyclopedia for the Semiotics of Culture. Participants were: Conrad Arensberg, prof., Dept, of Anthropology, Columbia U.; Eugene S. Baer, assoc, prof., Dept, of Philosophy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Thomas A. Sebeok, prof, and chairman, Graduate Program in Semiotic Studies, Indiana U.; Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok, research assoc., Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana U.; Edward Stankiewicz, prof., Dept, of Slavic Languages and Literature and Linguistics, Yale U.; Irene Portis Winner, research assoc., Brown and Harvard Us.; and Thomas C. Winner.

TRAVEL GRANT IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 1978-1979

Malcolm Bilson, prof., Dept, of Music, Cornell U. Travel to Budapest at the invitation of the Ferenc Liszt Academy, to conduct master classes in fortepiano. (April 1979)

For detailed program-information and copies of the annual report write to IREX, 655 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. (New address!)

ACADEMY EXCHANGE AWARDS 1979-1980

The National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council awarded the following scholars and scientists in the framework of an exchange program with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). (For program description see HSN no. 2, p. 1.)

AMERICANS TO HUNGARY, EXCHANGE YEAR 1979-1980 (accepted by HAS)

David Apirion (Louisiana St. U.) for research in chemistry, 1 month;

Nándor Balazs (SUNY, Stony Brook) for research in physics,

I month;

Stephen Carmichael (West Virginia Medical Center) for research in anatomy, 1 month;

Joseph Chiang (SUNY, Oneonta) for research in chemistry, 2 months;

Csaba Kesthelyi (Louisiana St. U.) for research in chemistry,

II months;

Joseph LaManna (U. of Miami, Medical School) 5 weeks; Julius Nagy (Colorado St. U.) research in wildlife and biology, 9 months;

Morton Raban (Wayne St. U.) for research in organic chemistry, 3 weeks;

Joseph Seminara (Duke U., Medical Center) for research in ergonomics, 2 months;

George Stefano (CUNY) for research in neurochemistry, 2 months;

T. Russel Snow (Duke U., Medical Center) for research in physiology, 5 weeks;

Thomas Tachovsky (Wisitar Inst.) for research in neuroimmunology, 1 month;

Howard Vogel (Louisians St. U.) for research in chemistry, 5 months.

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