Students Can Apply for Scholarship for Study Tour to Eastern Europe
Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community & Technical College students have an opportunity to receive a scholarship for a study tour through Eastern Europe.
"Roads to Appalachia through Eastern Europe: From the Carpathians to the Alleghenies - Life, Culture and Root Heritage of the Eastern Europeans in West Virginia" is planned for July 12-24, 2010. The study tour is sponsored by the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University.
Second semester freshmen, sophomores and juniors in all areas of academic study are eligible to apply for a scholarship through the Student Affairs Travel Abroad Scholarship Fund. Eligible students must be enrolled full-time and in good standing with a 2.5 GPA or higher. Eligible students must not be graduating before December 2010. The deadline for the submission of scholarship applications is Sept. 28, 2009, and awards will be announced after Oct. 19, 2009.
For more information about the trip and to obtain a scholarship application, visit http://www.fairmontstate.edu/wvfolklife/studyabroad.asp.
Students will be required to enroll in Folklore 3399: Special Topics Study Abroad, which will be offered on Thursdays from 6 to 8:50 p.m. during the spring 2010 semester. The class will include an undergraduate research project. Recipients of the scholarships will be asked to speak at public schools and recruitment events, plus other selected student activities and community learning.
The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at FSU is dedicated to the identification, preservation and perpetuation of the region's rich cultural heritage, through academic studies; educational programming, festivals and performances; and publications. "Roads to Appalachia through Study Abroad' is one of the center's primary educational programs that offer college students, educators and community members opportunities to study and travel to parts of the world from which the population of Central Appalachia has taken its cultural roots. "Roads to Appalachia" has featured research, study and travel to Scotland and Ireland in 2005, Italy in 2007 and England and Wales in 2008.
