Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1981 (9. évfolyam, 27-30. szám)
1981 / 27-28. szám
József Tóth, research fellow, Research Inst, for Higher Education; 5 months at the Dept, of Higher and Adult Education, Teachers Coll., Columbia U. The structure ofU.S. higher education. Postponed to 1980-81 Tibor Burger, assist, prof., Medical U., Pecs; 5 months requested. Bone marrow transplantation. Elemér Hankiss, program director, Inst, of Literary Research, HAS; 5 months requested. Research on the quality of life in the U.S.; social indicators; social policy. Not placed: Milklós Briglevics, researcher, Central Research Instit. of Physics, HAS; 5 months requested. Sixteen-bit minicomputer interfacing and testing. For detailed program-information and copies of the annual report write to IREX, 655 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. NFS AWARDS The National Science Foundation under its Program of Scientific Cooperation with Hungary (for background information see HSN no. 3, p. 1) activated eight research projects in 1980, and assisted the development of new projects in four instances. The program gives scientists an opportunity to learn new techniques, access to complementary expertise, and avoids duplication of scientific effort. (A) the following projects were supported in 1980: (1) Twistor theory, its application to general relativity and particle theory (24 months): E. Newman, U. of Pittsburgh, and Z. Perjés, Central European Research Institute for Physics. (2) Detailed investigation of extensional models for the creation of the Pannonian Basin (36 months): J. Sclater and C. Burchfield, MIT, and L. Stegena and F. Horváth, Eötvös L.U. (3) Numberical solution of partial differential equations and applications (24 months): R.S. Varga Kent St. U., and A. Kosa, Eötvös L.U. (4) Development of catalysts for hydrogenation of acetylene (36 months): A. Weiss, Worchester Polytec. Institute, and L. Guczi, Institute of Isotopes, HAS. (5) DNA sequence organization and function in D. Melanogaster (24 months): P. Schedl, Princeton U., and A. Udvardy, Biological Research Center, HAS. (Szeged). (6) Hormone binding in drosophilia cell lines (12 months): J. O’Connor, U. of California, and P. Maroy, Biological Research Center, HAS. (7) A reference grammar of Hungarian (24 months): R. Hetzron, U. of California, Santa Barbara, and K. Radies. Institute of Linguistics, HAS. (8) Photoelectric studies of bacteriorhodops in (12months): H. Frauenfelder and K. Eisenstein, U. of Illinois, and Z. Dancsházy, Biological Research Center, HAS. (B) The following exploratory and developmental grants were made, all for six months duration: (1) Chromosome mechanics of the rematode caenorhabditis elegáns. R. Herman, U. of Minnesota, and A. Fodor, Biological Research Institute, HAS. (2) U.S.-Hungary seminar in multidimensional analysis, information theory, and asymptotic methods, March 1980.1. Olkin, Stanford U., and P. Révész, Mathematical Research RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Andrew Vazsonyi (Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana U.) has nearly completed a language lexicon Túl a Kecegárdán: a Calumet-vidéki magyar nyelv szótára, for the HAS. The material, about 3,000 words and expressions, is a by-product of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author and his spouse, Linda Degh. Each item will be analyzed according to its linguistic, cultural-historical connections and accompanied by documents, illustrations, the fife history of the informants, and other appendices. □ JOINT EXCAVATION BY BRITISH AND HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS took place last summer in the vicinity of Szeghalom and Dévaványa in Békés County. This year the excavations concentrated on a number of small Neolithic settlements between 4,000 and 7,000 years old. Next year, attention will be given to larger settlements. Finds made so far are being examined and evaluated. Archaeologists from the local Munkácsy Mihály Museum in Békéscsaba are working on the restoration of pottery finds, the most interesting of which are 6,000-year old altar with a goatshaped receptacle for sacrifice, and eight clay-baked goddesses. Stone and bone implements are being catalogued. Grains of cereal found on the site are being studied by the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. The Neolithic peoples who lived on the territory of present day Hungary are credited with playing a considerable part in spreading the cultivation of cereals and rudimentary farming techniques to the rest of Europe. (News from Hungary, 1980:4) □ Sándor Ungváry (P.O. Box 102, Buena Vista, CO 81211) is working on the Renaissance and the early Protestant Reformation in Hungary, i.e. on the intellectual history of Hungarian humanism and the Protestant spiritual revolution which followed. A book is contemplated which would consist of a comparative historical study among East Central European nations and their influence on intellectual development in Hungary. □ Conrad C. Reining, Catholic U., continues to analyze his data on the German-speaking minorities of Hungary and Romania, particularly their changes in household and family organizations during the past 250 years. □ Your editor and a few graduate students continue to collect oral life histories of Hungarian immigrants. The present interest is in persons, who do not maintain contact with ethnic organizations. If you know of someone whose life history is unusual and deserves recording, please drop a line to the editor giving the address and telephone number of the potential condidate. □ Institute, and A. Békéssy, Computer and Automation Institute, HAS. (3) Spinal cord mechanism. Visiting U.S. scientist A. Light, U. of North Carolina; host, M. Réthelyi, Semmelweis U. (4) Fifth U.S.-Hungarian Conference on Economics, May 1980. E. Hewett, U. of Texas, Austin, and M. Simái, Institute for World Economy. For information on support write to East Europe, Division of International Programs, N.S.F., 1800 G Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20550. Program managers are Dr. Charles Zalar, and Deborah L. Wince. NO. 27-28, SPRING, 1981 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 15
