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Former war correspondent to deliver lecture on Chechen conflict
Journalist Thomas Goltz, a former war correspondent who covered post-Soviet conflicts during the 1980s and '90s, will deliver a lecture titled "The Chechen National Disaster and Other Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Caucasus," at 4:30 p.m. Monday (Nov. 13) in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and East European Studies, the presentation is free and open to the public and will include a discussion and video.
Junior wins DAAD scholarship to study in Germany
Grant Van Eaton, a University of Notre Dame junior from Austin, Texas, has been awarded a DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship, which will support 10 months of study at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany beginning this fall.
Van Eaton is one of 62 students from 51 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada to be chosen from a group of 210 applicants to receive the prestigious scholarship for those interested in studying, conducting senior thesis research or completing internships in Germany. The program is administered by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst or German Academic Exchange Service.
