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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Dear Members:</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Below are brief descriptions and links to two graduate student prizes, which support young scholars' scholarship efforts. Also, we have included details about the Davis travel grant, which </span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>s</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>upports students' attendance at the 201</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>3</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'> ASEEES convention. Please encourage your students to apply. And please let me know what questions you have.</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Tucker/Cohen Prize: Deadline: April 15, 201</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>3</span></strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://www.aseees.org/prizes/tuckercohenprize.html">http://www.aseees.org/prizes/tuckercohenprize.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>The Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen prize, sponsored by the JKW Foundation, is awarded annually (if there is a distinguished submission) for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation defended at an American or Canadian university in the tradition of historical political science and political history of Russia or the Soviet Union as practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen. The dissertation must be completed and defended during the calendar year prior to the award. The prize is awarded at the ASEEES Annual Convention in November.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#000101'>Davis Student Travel Grant: </span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#330000'>Deadline: </span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#000101'>April 15, 201</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>3</span></strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://aseees.org/convention/davisgrant.html">http://aseees.org/convention/davisgrant.html</a></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Kathryn W. Davis’s generous donation to our organization, combined with matching donations from ASEEES members, enables us to help subsidize travel costs for graduate students presenting papers at the 2012 ASEEES Convention. We are especially committed to subsidizing those graduate students who are attending the convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. Students may only receive ONE Davis Graduate Travel Grant over the course of their graduate studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Graduate Student Essay Prize: Deadline: June 1, 201</span></strong><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>3</span></strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:blue'><a href="http://www.aseees.org/prizes/studentprize.html">http://www.aseees.org/prizes/studentprize.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>The Graduate Student Essay Prize is awarded for an outstanding essay by a graduate student in Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Mary Arnstein<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:black'>Communications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>203C Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'>(412) 648-9809 (direct), 648-9911 (main) (412) 648-9815 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.aseees.org/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>www.aseees.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.aseees.org/support.html"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#C00000'>Support ASEEES</span></b></a></span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-for-Slavic-East-European-and-Eurasian-Studies/141362775903086"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Find us on Facebook</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'> | </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2585509"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Join us on LinkedIn</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'> | </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/aseeestudies"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Follow us on Twitter</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Minion Pro","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>