Word: kukin
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These new Soviet policies raise many questionsfor American scholars, according to Mark N.Kramer, a Kukin Fellow at the Center forInternational Affairs. "You need to ask ifGorbachev will be around to implement his program,if it will work, how the Soviets will adapt, andif it is in our interest to have Gorbachevsucceed," he said...
...academics will be called Kukin Scholars in honor of donor Ira Kukin, who earned a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1951, and they will serve three-year terms, including one year spent visiting their region of study...
...Academy will include both doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars, and while at Harvard, the Kukin scholars will be expected to be working on a major research project such as a thesis or a book...
...committee of senior faculty members headed by Rosovsky will serve as mentors to the Kukin Scholars, and assist them in either gaining further expertise in a discipline in the social sciences or focusing on a particular region. The scholars will be housed in the CFIA, and they will also use of other Harvard facilities such as the Russian Research Center and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation has also provided funds to help pay for the initial costs of the program, and Kukin's gift will form a permanent endowment for the Academy...