Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1986 (14. évfolyam, 47-50. szám)

1986 / 47-48. szám

collected on language samples with second generation Hungarian-speaking children. Budapest, July 1985.

Comparative literature. Joint conference: “Genre in 20th century “Continuity and change,” conference held at the Inst, of Literary studies, HAS. Budapest, August 12-16,1985). Psychology Joint conference: “Hungarian-American conference on social perception and understanding of interaction in literature,” San Francisco, August 28-31, 1985.

TRAVEL GRANTS FOR SENIOR SCHOLARS IREX makes available a limited number of travel grants to facilitate communication between prominent American humanists and social scientists and their colleagues in Eastern Europe. The following awards were made for 1984/85:

llhasn Basgoz, Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana U. in cooperation with Zoltán Szász, Inst, of History, HAS: Lecture on Turkish folklore and Turkish studies in the U.S. at Warsaw U., Poland, and Institute of History, HAS.

Robert G. Dyck, Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Inst, and State U., Blacksburg. In cooperation with Ferenc Vidor “Lecture at summer school on urbanization, Szombathely, Hungary, and plan for U.S.-Hungarian university program in urbanization for Summer 1985. Charles Guzzetta, Hunter College, CUNY. In cooperation with Zsuzsa Ferge, Inst, of Sociology, HAS. to consult with colleagues at the Inst, of Sociology, HAS, deliver lectures and advise on the training of social workers.

Arthur Holmberg, Dept, of Comparative Literature, Harvard U. In cooperation with Miklós Szabolcsi, Inst, of Languages and Literature, HAS, to attend a Hungarian Shakespeare production of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” and study the Shakespeare research being done at the Inst.

Lyn Turgeon, Dept, of Economics, Hofstra U. In cooperation with Mihály Simái dept, director, Inst, for World Economics, HAS, to lecture at the Inst, of World Economics, on the U.S. economy, including aspects of the discrimination gap.

NAS/NRC

The National Academy of Sciences (U. S.) in cooperation with the National Research Council sponsors programs of exchanges of individual scientists with the academies of sciences of the Soviet Union and East Central Europe, including Hungary. The disciplines include physics; chemistry; mathematics and computersciences; earth; atmospheric and oceanographic sciences; agricultural, forestry, fisher and plant sciences; biological and medical sciences; environmental sciences; engineering; archaeology; geography and psychology. Also included are science and technology policy studies and other aspects of economic and social sciences that involve quantitative analysis. Other scientific disciplines not explicitly mentioned will be considered on a case-by-case basis. For further information about the Hungarian program, contact Cassandra M. Turczak, Soviet and East European Affairs, Office of International Affairs, JH(218), 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418, or call 202-334-3652.

Awards extended in 1985/86 were as follows: HUNGARIANS TO THE U.S. IN 1985

Zoltán Berzsenyi, Agricultural Research Institute, HAS, to study corn production.

Joseph Molnár, Institute of Microbiology, University NO. 47-48, SPRING-SUMMER, 1986 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER

Medical School, Szeged, to study bacterial plasmids and chemotherapy.

János Pusztai, Department of International Relations, HAS, to study comparative physiology.

Imre Szabó, Institute of Physiology, University School of Medicine, Pecs, to study neural coding of colors in optic tract and lateral geniculate nucleus.

András Szillery, Computer and Automation Institute, HAS, to study computer aided information system design.

AMERICANS TO HUNGARY IN 1986

Robert Allen, U. of Houston, to study applied expert systems and mechanical design.

Marion Baumgardner, Purdue U., to study inventorying and monitoring land resources.

Helen Crawford, U. of Kansas, to study biological anthropology and anthropological genetics.

Joseph Chiang, State U. of New York, Oneonta, to study physical and structural chemistry.

Tibor Koertvelyessy, Ohio U., to study biological anthropology, demography and genetics.

Stephen Molnár, Washington U., to study human variation and evolution.

Parker Pratt, U. of California, Riverside, to study chemistry of soils, fertilizer reactions, soil fertility and water quality.

Alvin Sarachek, Wichita State U., to study genetics and radiobiology of pathogenic yeasts.

NCSEER

The National Council for Soviet and East European Research

has awarded a total of 29 research contracts of which three are directly or indirectly related to Hungary, as listed below. For program information contact the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036.

Thane Gustafson and Jan Vanous, Georgetown U., "Construction of East European and Soviet Macroeconomic Databank.”

J. Michael Montias, Yale U., “Industrial Policy in Eastern Europe.”

Richard E. Quandt, Princeton U., “Economic Disequilibrium and Rationing in East European Countries.”

NSF

The National Science Foundation carries out its statutory responsibilities for the support of international scientific activities through a number of programs. The Eastern Europe Cooperative Science Programs constitute one of them. It fosters and supports scientific cooperation between the U.S. and various East Central European countries, including Hungary. These programs promote collaboration and exchange of information between scientists, engineers, and institutions of research and higher learning of the U.S. and the cooperating countries. In general, scientists of the U.S. and of Hungary must participate in each project; both, the U.S. and Hungary must approve each project; each country supports the cost of research and other scientific activities taking place within its territory.

In fiscal year 1985 NSF awarded eleven cooperative research grants to Hungarian-related projects. The total support given to this program amounted to $325,000. For

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