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Dusty Wilmes wins Presidential Fellowship
Congratulations to Dusty Wilmes for receiving a Presidential Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship and research ability and provides recipients the opportunity to devote…

David McVey defends dissertation
Congratulations to David McVey for successfully defending his dissertation, "Man Enough: Multiple Masculinities in the Films of Pavel Lungin?"

Kapustnik!
Thanks to everyone for helping to make another successful Kapustnik!
The winners were:
1st Prize: Dusty Wilmes' Russian 4101 class
2nd Prize: Lejla Bijal's BCS class
3rd…

A&S Book Cover Awards
The following books were awarded a 2013 Arts & Sciences Book Cover Award:
Chekhov for the 21st…

Michael Furman gives talk
Once the Bolsheviks vanquished the Whites in the Russian civil war, they began to turn their attention to the so-called societal ills within their ranks: illiteracy, religion and…

Yana Hashamova receives Heldt Prize
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the 2013 AWSS Heldt Prize Committee has decided to award Yana Hashamova's article, “War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and…

Latest grad student publishing news: Helen Myers
Congratulations are due to Helen Myers, who published an article on the "Distribution of Uncontracted and Contracted Imperfect Verbs in the Old Russian Manuscript of the Eleventh-century…

Ceilidh Orr and Spencer Robinson awarded UCAT seed grant
Congratulations to graduate student Ceilidh Orr and Language Programs Coordinator Spencer Robinson, who have been awarded a $10,000 seed grant from the University Center for the Advancement of…

Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger promoted
Slavic Department faculty members Yana Hashamova and Angela Brintlinger have been promoted to Full Professor! Their promotions received final approval from the OSU Board of Trustees on June 7,…