The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio announces the availability of financial support for new graduate students in our Department in the 2003-2004 academic year. We offer Graduate Teaching Associateships, University Fellowships (for new students), FLAS Title VI fellowships, and several other kinds of financial aid. GTA and UF awards are open to students from all countries.

Academia Romana - Granturi pentru anul 2003. Pentru detalii, vizitati: http://www.academiaromana.ro/grant2003/pag_grant2003.htm

In "Capital" Nr. 94/4 Decembrie a aparut articolul "Cercetare pe bani europeni". Pentru detalii si articol complet, vizitati: http://www.capital.ro/sectiune.php?IdOfSection=4&IdOfMagazine=202&Selector=ALL&ViewArticle=detail&IdOfArticle=7969&view=detail

Excerpt from the info sheet: "How can international standards foster the global policy dialogue on the Information Society and the development of a harmonized and stable framework of technologies, best practices and agreements, recognized worldwide ? This is the crux of the question that will be tackled by Mr. Ollie Smoot, ISO President elect, and Mr. U. Hartmann, Director, Information/communications, Siemens, at the World Summit on the Information

Release by AP. Source: Guardian Unlimited _________ " BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Pity the humble hot dog. Under an unusual new law, Romania's fast-food vendors won't be able to hawk the English-only version any more. Instead, they'll also have to offer what would translate into Romanian as ``a kind of sausage in a kind of roll.'' Computer companies advertising a ``laptop'' would also peddle ``an apparatus for putting at the top of the lap.'' Politicians

Invitati: Carmen DOBROVIE Liliane HAEGEMAN Richard KAYNE Brenda LACA Sanda REINHEIMER Johan ROORYCK Detalii complete la: http://rom-www.uia.ac.be/ rom/nl/onderzoek/congres_tasmowski/hommage_Tasmowski.html

NIAS Fellows are selected from prominent researchers and senior scholars in the humanities and social sciences who have already made a contribution to scholarship and who are able to continue their research and to advance knowledge in their particular fields during their stay. All fellowships are awarded on the recommendation of a Scholarship Committee, whose membership is determined by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. To be eligible