Current Student Funding Resources
Boren Scholarship for International Study
Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students
to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S.
interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia,
Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle
East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand are excluded.
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards for undergraduate study
abroad and was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act
of 2000. This scholarship provides awards for U.S. undergraduate
students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two-year or
four-year college or university to participate in study abroad programs
worldwide.
George Kline Fellowship
A source of supplemental funding awarded by the Bryn Mawr College Department of Russian for Bryn Mawr and Haverford College students who are studying in Russia.
Russian Flagship Scholarship Form
A source of supplemental funding for students who are studying at RLI, RLASP Summer with American Councils, or Russian Overseas Flagship (Overseas Flagship Capstone Course). Applicants must be in the Bryn Mawr Flagship program and registered in the Flagship database.
Thomas Raeburn White Scholarship and Judy Loomis Gould Scholarships for Summer Study Abroad are just two of the funding opportunities listed on the Bryn Mawr College Dean's Office web site for summer funding. Please go directly to the Dean's web site to check out the complete list of funding opportunities.
Arts
Museums and Sites
(KOI8) An excellent index of Russian Museums on-line
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
Dictionaries
News
Russia Today -- Daily News Home Page
(English) Full issue of Russia Today
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Reports on Russia
The Voice of Russia
(English) Hear the Voice of Russia using RealPlayer in Russian, English, etc.
The Moscow Times (English)
The St. Petersburg Times (English)
Radio and Film
Resources
Russia on the Net
(Eng or Russ) A fantastic index of everything Russian on the internet. It includes businesses, computers, literature, etc. Seems to work with any encoding.
Bucknell's Russian Page
(Eng & Russ) It has a great list of dictionaries, grammar resources, etc.
Dazhdbog's Grandchildren
(English) An interesting index of Russian cultural resources on the web. Be patient.
ASEEES
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly the American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies).
American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS)
American Councils for International Education home page with information regarding news about the organization, Russian related programs, and study abroad opportunities
AATSEEL
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages home page.
Russnet
Russian Language field resource center
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/resources/russian
(English) A list of computer learning resources available for many languages
Search Engines
Google.ru
The Russian version of Google