October 2, 2012
Proposals for presentations, workshops, roundtable discussions, and symposia for the Seventh Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing are due Jan. 27, 2013. The conference, “Teaching Writing Across Languages and Cultures,” will be held at CEU June 27-29, 2013. For more information, see http://www.eataw2013.eu.
October 2, 2012
The deadline for submitting applications for the Open Society Archives’ Visegrad Scholarships is Oct. 10. This program offers eight-week research fellowships with a stipend of €2,000 per project. Stipends for shorter periods are pro-rated. For more information, see: http://visegradfund.org/scholarships/osa/ andhttp://www.osaarchivum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=....
October 2, 2012
The deadline for submitting proposals to the Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office for CEU Research Support Scheme Type 2 funding is Oct. 31. The purpose of the scheme is to provide a funding mechanism for CEU academic staff to develop research initiatives. Type 2 support is available to CEU departments (after using all “Type 1” support), research centers and groups, and clusters of units submitting joint proposals. Maximum support is €5,000. The application form can be downloaded at https://acro.ceu.hu/node/1102.
October 2, 2012
Balazs Vedres, associate professor and director of the Center for Network Science, won a research grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation in partnership with David Stark of Columbia University. Their research will investigate the social network sources of creativity. While there is considerable network research on innovation adoption, little is known about the network structures that can contribute to innovation generation.
October 2, 2012
Katalin Farkas, provost and academic pro-rector; Bela Greskovits, professor of the Department of International Relations and European Studies; and Gergely Csibra, head of the Department of Cognitive Science, were awarded the prestigious title of “egyetemi tanar,” by Hungarian President Janos Ader. The title, which literally means “university professor,” indicates a high ranking within Hungarian higher education. To qualify for accreditation in Hungary, doctoral schools must have a certain number of such professors.
October 2, 2012
Bernadett Koles, associate professor of management at CEU Business School and co-director of its Initiative for Regulatory Innovation research center, was invited to join the executive committee of the International Management Research Academy. The academy is a global association of management scholars and practitioners dedicated to the continuous and effective development of management theory and practice. For more information, visit http://www.imraweb.org/.
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October 2, 2012
Shlomo Avineri, professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and recurrent visiting professor in CEU’s Nationalism and Jewish Studies programs, has been elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
October 2, 2012
Selim Deringil, visiting professor in CEU’s Nationalism Studies Program, and Balazs Trencsenyi, associate professor in the Department of History, have been elected members of the prestigious Academia Europaea, a European non-governmental association of leading experts in natural sciences and the humanities.
October 2, 2012
Monica Macovei, a member of the European Parliament and the CEU Board of Trustees was recently awarded “The Parliament” magazine’s MEP 2012 award for her work on the European Parliament’s Justice and Civil Liberties committee. She was selected by a vote of her fellow parliamentarians. The magazine cited her record of judicial reform in her native Romania and her advocacy in the parliament for transparency, civil rights, and anti-corruption efforts, within and beyond the borders of the European Union. The awards ceremony was held in Brussels on Sept. 25.
October 2, 2012
CEU has attracted attention over the past year for its effective method of integrating alumni relations and career services. Four U.S. and European publications have cited CEU’s approach as an example to other institutions. One of the four was written by Serge Sych, director of Alumni and Corporate Relations. For more information, see http://goo.gl/Ex45v.
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