Student Conference on U.S. Affairs

An annual conference devoted to international relations, economics, political science, and related social science fields, SCUSA is held each fall at the US Military Academy, West Point.  UAA can nominate two students to attend this annual conference.  The selection committee seeks students who have demonstrated interest in area studies, global issues, international studies, international relations, and/or foreign policy. Full funding is available for two participants who are selected in a competitive application process each spring. 

Description and link to application:  http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/ours/opportunities/research/scusa.cfm

Deadline: All applications for the Fall 2008 SCUSA Conference must be received by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship by 5:00pm on Friday, April 11.

Surviving the Holocaust
Gerda Weissmann Klein, a noted survivor of the Nazi slave labor camps, is coming to speak at UAA. Her autobiographical account of her family’s tragic experience in the Holocaust, All But My Life, has gone through 60 editions. The 1995 HBO documentary based on her experiences, “One Survivor Remembers,” won the Academy Award. She married one of the GIs who helped to liberate her concentration camp in 1945. Her story is one of both the brutality and the triumph of the human spirit.

Mrs. Klein will speak of her experiences at UAA, Rasmuson Hall 101 on Monday night, March 31^st at 7:00 p.m. The event is free, and open to the UAA community and the public. Please join us.

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