Because of the importance of interAmerican relations, the United States Government is offering special opportunities to U. S. students for study in Latin America. In addition to the grants normally available under the Fulbright-Hays program, approximately 80 grants for the 1965-1966 academic year will be available to beginning graduate students and graduating seniors through a program supervised by the Board of Foreign Scholarships and administered by the Institute of International Education.
This program, which was started in 1963, will send young Americans to those republics in which the number of U. S. students has traditionally been small, such as Venezuela, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, and Uruguay.
Candidates for the awards must be U. S. citizens and single, with at least a bachelor’s degree by the beginning date of the grant and proficiency in the language of the host country. Preference will be given to applicants in the following fields: humanities, history, social sciences, political science, and law.
Grantees will live in university housing when available and will be expected to participate in the academic and social student life of the country of assignment. Candidates should have a lively interest in the Latin American area and specifically in the country or countries for which they are applying.
Information and application forms may be obtained from the Fulbright program Adviser on each campus. Application procedures are described in the brochure, “United States Government Grants for Graduate Study Abroad, 1965-66,” published by IIE (809 United Nations Plaza, New York, N. Y. 10017).
Ford Foundation Grants. The Ford Foundation has announced a grant of $175,000 to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for conferences to be attended by leaders in various fields from countries in the Western Hemisphere. The meetings will be held over a five-year period—the first in Cuernavaca in 1965—under the title “Confrontations of the Twentieth Century.”
A grant of $492,000 has been made to the International Center for Higher Studies in Journalism for Latin America, for continued assistance to the center, located in Ecuador, for a regional program in journalism and journalism education. The grant will provide fellowships for an annual seminar, salaries for visiting professors, and funds for research.
The University of Minnesota has received $782,600 to continue assistance to the University of Concepción for its program of academic reforms. The grant will help to establish institutes in the social sciences and humanities for training of undergraduates in all branches of the university. In addition, the funds will enable young Chilean faculty members to study abroad, support an exchange with Minnesota, and provide for library improvement.
The National University of San Marcos, Peru, has received $27,800 to aid in the development of a general studies program by providing consultants from the University of Kansas, and funds for a faculty seminar and books and teaching materials.
In addition to the above, the Ford Foundation’s Overseas Development program provided funds for other activities, including educational consultants in Latin America.
The Inter-American Academy and its scholarly Journal of Inter-American Studies have moved their headquarters to the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. Dr. Ione Stuessy Wright of the University of Miami has been named editor of the Journal, which is now in its sixth year of publication.
The year 1965 is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay. The Ministerio de Salud Pública of Cuba plans to publish a commemorative volume listing all bibliographical items concerning Dr. Finlay and his work. The Ministerio requests that copies of such works be sent, if possible, to Sr. César Rodríguez Expósito, Apartado Postal No. 97. Havana 1, Cuba. If copies of the works cannot be sent, complete bibliographical information will be helpful.
The University of Wisconsin Press has announced the publication of a semi-annual, bi-lingual journal, the Luso-Brazilian Review. Subscriptions should be sent to the Journals Department, The University of Wisconsin Press, P. O. Box 1379, Madison, Wisconsin 53701. Prices are: one year, $3.75; two years, $7.00; three years, $10.00.
