[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 165 (Friday, August 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43567-43568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21506]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Intelligence and Research
[Public Notice 2428]


FY 1996 Funding Under the Research and Training for Eastern 
Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Act of 
1983

1. American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Council for 
Collaboration in Education and Language Study

    Grant: $150,000 ($130,000 NIS; $20,000 EE/Baltics).
    Purpose: To support graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and 
junior faculty in Russian, Eurasian and Central European studies for 
advanced on-site language training and research.
    Contact: Katie Turnball, ACTR/ACCELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, 
NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 833-7522.
2. Council on International Educational Exchange
    Grant: $50,000 (NIS).
    Purpose: To support fellowships for advanced and specialized on-
site Russian language training.
    Contact: John Myers, Program Officer, Cooperative Russian Language 
Program/CIEE, 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 (212) 822-2732.
3. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford 
University
    Grant: $125,000 ($85,000 NIS; $40,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To support residential postdoctoral fellowships on the NIS 
and summer grants on the NIS, Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
    Contact: Richard F. Staar, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, 
Stanford, CA 94305-6010 (415) 723-1348.
4. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Grant: $120,000 ($100,000 NIS; $20,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To provide partial funding for the University's Summer 
Research Laboratory and the Slavic Reference Service.
    Contact: Diane P. Koenker, Program Administrator, Russian and East 
European Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 104 
International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign, IL 
61820 (217) 333-1244.
5. International Research and Exchanges Board
    Grant: $1,195,000 ($805,000 NIS; $390,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To support a variety of programs facilitating American 
scholarly access to Russia, Eurasia and East Europe: individual field 
research grants; predeparture orientation; short-term travel grants; 
special projects; and dissemination of field results.
    Contact: Robert T. Huber, Vice President, IREX, 1616 H Street, NW, 
Washington, DC 20006 (202) 628-8188.
6. Joint Committee on Eastern Europe
    Grant: $570,000 (EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To support fellowships for dissertation completion, post-
doctoral research, and pre-dissertation travel grants; institutional 
and individual language training grants; and collaborative research and 
training through conferences and the Junior Scholars' Training Seminar.
    Contact: Jason Parker, Executive Associate, JCEE/American Council 
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Learned Societies, 228 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017-3398 (212) 
697-1505 (ext. 134/135).

7. Joint Committee on the Soviet Union and its Successor States

    Grant: $865,000 ($825,000 NIS; $40,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To support a national fellowship program for advanced 
graduate training, dissertation completion, and junior post-doctoral 
research; workshops on critical themes in post-Soviet studies; and a 
competition for grants to U.S. institutions offering intensive training 
in languages of the NIS.
    Contact: Susan Bronson, Staff Associate, JCSSS/Social Science 
Research Council, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 (212) 377-2700.

8. National Academy of Sciences

    Grant: $70,000 ($25,000 NIS; $45,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To support Young Investigator Programs in forest 
management in Russia, worker health in Ukraine, and coastal ecology in 
Albania.
    Contact: Steven Deets/Kelly Robbins, Office for Central Europe and 
Eurasia, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2101 
Constitution Avenue, NW, (FO 2014), Washington, DC 20418 (202) 334-
2644.

9. National Council for Soviet and East European Research

    Grant: $1,120,000 ($810,000 NIS; $310,000 EE/Baltic states).
    Purpose: To conduct one or more national competitions among 
American institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations 
in support of advanced research projects on Russia, Eurasia, and East-
Central Europe.
    Contact: Robert Randolph, Executive Director, NCSEER 1755 
Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 304, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 287-
0168.

10. The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

    Grant: $725,000 ($465,000 NIS; $260,000 to EE/Baltic States)
    Purpose: To support research scholarships, short-term grants, 
research fellowships and internships; the meetings programs; and 
outreach publications of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian 
Studies and the East European Studies Program.
    Contact: Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute or John Lampe, 
Director, East European Studies, East and West European Program, The 
Wilson Center, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, Suite 704, Washington, DC 20024-
2518 (202) 287-3400.

    Dated: August 12, 1996.
Kenneth E. Roberts,
Executive Director, Advisory Committee for Studies of Eastern Europe 
and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.
[FR Doc. 96-21506 Filed 8-22-96; 8:45 am]
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