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Undergraduate:
Graduate:
UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES:
THE BILDNER PRIZES
Celebrating
its 34th anniversary in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, the Department is pleased to announce the
following list of prizes for undergraduates in Yale
College.
Albert
Bildner, Yale Class of 1937, Prizes in Latin American
Languages and Literatures, administered
by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Awarded
for high achievement in the Spanish and Portuguese languages
and in Latin American Literature. Four prizes of $500
to be awarded as follows:
1. In honor
of Professor José Juan Arrom (Yale, '37), Professor
of Spanish and Latin American Literature at Yale from
1945 to 1975. For an outstanding essay to be written
in acceptable Spanish on any subject in Latin American
Literature; it will be judged mainly for the originality
and importance of the ideas presented therein. All undergraduates
studying Spanish at Yale are eligible to compete.
2. In memory
of Patricia Bildner. For an outstanding essay written
in Portuguese on any subject in Brazilian literature.
The paper is to be written in acceptable Portuguese;
however, it will be judged mainly for the originality
and importance of the ideas presented therein. All undergraduates
studying Portuguese are eligible to compete.
3. To that
graduating senior who has achieved a high academic average
in Spanish courses, and has also demonstrated the greatest
development in his or her knowledge of the Spanish language
and Hispanic literature since beginning the study of
Spanish at Yale. The student must have taken a satisfactory
number of courses in Spanish language and Hispanic literature.
4. In honor
of Prof. K. David Jackson, the Brazil prize is awarded
to a graduating senior who has achieved a high academic
average in Portuguese courses, and has also demonstrated
the greatest development in his or her knowledge of
the Portuguese language and Luso-Brazilian literature
at Yale. The student must have taken a satisfactory
number of courses in Portuguese language and in Luso-Brazilian
literature.
For more
information, please contact (DUS, Spanish), Prof. Noël
Valis; Prof. K. David Jackson
(DUS, Portuguese), or Virginia Gutiérrez, Undergraduate
Registrar, at 2-5439.
The deadline
for submitting appropriate projects is April 18, 2008 at 4 PM .
The
Albert Bildner Travel Prize, administered
by the Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies,
Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
The Albert
Bildner Travel prize of $1000 will be awarded to a Yale
College student who is in his or her junior year for
research in the field the summer between the junior
and senior years. Students who are doing research on
Latin America for their senior essays are eligible to
apply; preference will be given to Latin American Studies
majors. A brief proposal (no more than three pages)
written in Spanish or Portuguese indicating how a summer
in the field would enhance the senior essay is required.
For details, contact the Council on Latin American and
Iberian Studies in the Yale Center for International
and Area Studies, MacMillan Hall, Room 342, at 2-3422, or
go online to http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/undergraduate.htm
for more information or to download
the application.
GRADUATE
PRIZE:
LENIE MORALES PRIZE IN GRADUATE STUDIES
In 1990,
the Department of Spanish and Portuguese established
the "C. Malcolm Batchelor Award in Memory of Adalenie
Morales" to honor the memory of a graduate student,
Lenie Morales, who died suddenly while on research leave
from the program.
The purpose
of the Morales Prize is to support research or language
study (the latter, in an approved program) in Portugal
or Brazil. The amount of the annual prize is $1600.
Interested
students should submit their completed proposals, addressed
to the Director of Graduate Studies and delivered to
Ginny Gutiérrez, by April 14, 2008 at 4 PM .
Applications
should consist of:
(1) a detailed
description of the proposed research or course of language
study (the latter should include a brochure from the
selected program);
(2) the proposed
destination and length of stay;
(3) an account
of the relevance of the proposal to the student's course
of doctoral study;
(4) a tentative
budget (estimated cost of airfare and other transportation,
estimated cost of lodging and meals);
(5) an updated
curriculum vitae.
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