admin @ March 5, 2009 # 2 Comments
The USA/USA Program congratulates Tamara Halkina (Seminar 2004) who is graduating this May from Harvard with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry on her acceptance to seven PhD programs: Caltech, UC Irvine, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, and Scripps Research Institute. Tamara is interested in organic synthesis – looking at either organic reaction development or total synthesis [...]
admin @ January 10, 2009 # One Comment
On January 10, 2009 Dr. Bohdan Oryshkevich has gathered potential volunteers, Ukrainian students and alumni of the USA/USA for an information session about the Program. Over sandwiches and tea he shared many interesting stories from the past of the Program, and the Program’s aspiration in the future. The USA/USA was glad to welcome Dr. Savyckyj, [...]
editor @ December 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ukrainian Saturday School of New York City is seeking a Ukrainian-speaking teacher. The applicant for the position must be fluent in written and spoken Ukrainian and would ideally have a degree in education.
Classes take place every Saturday except for holidays at St. George School in East Village. The subjects taught heavily stress spoken and written [...]
editor @ December 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Continuing a good tradition, the USA/USA Program has gathered once again its students and friends for an Annual Thanksgiving Dinner.
The USA/USA Students and guests
Dr. Oryshkevich highlights the value of the young talent gathered in the room
Seminar 2001 alumni: still good friends 7 years later.
Left to right: Marina is now an MD/PhD student at Northwestern, Yevheniya [...]
editor @ November 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
M. Hu/Y. Omelchenko
New York, Nov. 1, 2008
Why had the government ignored basic necessary medical services in the rural areas while spending hundreds of million of hryvna on medical buildings in Kyiv? What is the near term prognosis for the parliamentary elections? How can Ukrainians studying abroad return to find employment in Ukraine?
These questions, along with [...]
editor @ September 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Ukrainian Students Association in the United States of America (USA/USA), an academic scholarship program to aid students from Ukraine who wished to study in the US, hosted their 15th Anniversary fundraiser last Friday night, featuring Ukrainian art, education and current events discussion. Education was the focus of the evening; most of the art was [...]
editor @ August 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Seminar 2008 is over, and the students are back in their home towns studying for the official SATs and TOEFL. Here are several pictures for you to have a glimpse of the Seminar.
Ivan Kozyryev and Alina Volobuyeva going over one of the practice essays with Yuliya Kravtsova
In the background: Iryna Shakhmantsir commending on Anastasiya [...]
editor @ July 17, 2008 # 3 Comments
Dear friends,
We have finished the selection process, and chose 17 out of 167 of the interested students to attend our Seminar 2008 and to benefit from our support during their application process to the top-notch educational establishments of the world. The Seminar 2008 will take place in Poltava, and will begin on July 25th, [...]
editor @ May 8, 2008 # 2 Comments
Did you ever ponder how much is discovered, created, solved and made possible by curious young minds? Whether one looks at the student-run Youth League of the African National Congress activating a vigorous struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the creation of Skype, the first online telecommunication software, in Estonia, or even the dawn of [...]
editor @ April 3, 2008 # One Comment
During the last weekend of March four of the USA/USA students attended the annual SUSTA (The Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America) conference. Two of them, Yuliya Sychikova and Hanna Maksymova were among the organizers of the event. The students and the Program Coordinator participated in the panel discussion, and then presented the [...]