University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 5. 1986
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Creativity pays off for engineers
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
An engineering student can get as much as $30,000 a year for graduate research from a new grant program from the National Science Foundation.
The program, "Creativity Awards in Graduate Engineering," is based on creative ideas more than on academic achievement, according to the foundation. It is designed to make graduate research more appealing to engineering undergraduates and recent graduates nationwide.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering,
sahe became aware of the progam last month. The program
"It's sometimes difficult to find support at this level," he said yesterday.
would help students pay bills while dedicating their time to research. he said.
The grant, which can be renewed twice, would pay for tuition, fees and student's research costs. It also allows students almost $1,000 a month for living expenses.
"The competition is going to be fierce." Locke said. "For the 30 grants given, they should have at least a couple hundred applications, if not more."
Students must submit to the foundation a letter that describes the proposed research in detail so
the selection committee can evaluate its technical merit.
Other factors in the selection process include three letters of recommendation and training and education.
The program is open to any prospective graduate student in engineering who is a U.S. citizen. Engineering students already in graduate school are not eligible for the award.
Normally, NSF graduate awards are based on academic achievement, but the creativity awards will encourage students toward more creative research ideas, the NSF said.
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The play, a contemporary drama by the late Russian playwright Aleksandr Vampilov, takes place during one day at a small cafe in the Siberian woods.
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Soviet comedy avoids politics in depiction of human tragedy
By NANCY BARRE
Staff writer
"Last Summer in Chulukmil," presented as part of the University of Kansas, William Ingle Theatre Series at 8 p.m. today, Sunday and at 3:00 p.m. Sunday in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $2 for KU students, $4 for senior citizens and $4 for the public and can be purchased at the Murphy hall box office.
"Last Summer in Chulimsk" is a Soviet play, but its message transcends national boundaries.
David Montee, Bartvillew, Okla-
graduate student and director of the
play, said "Chilimsk" was an entertaining and thought-provoking play that used humor to express pathos and tragedy.
Siberian woods.
It is a nine-character ensemble play with no dominant character, Montee said.
"It's about people who are oppressed, unhappy and frustrated with their existence," Montee said. "They are thwarted in both their love lives and their careers."
Among the characters are a young, disliked KGB investigator and his girlfriend. At the cafe they encour- ment an 18-year-old waitress secretly in love with the KGB agent, a 74-year-old man trying to secure a pension and a middle-aged woman who manages the cafe.
He said the characters often expressed humor but only to cover up the sadness in their lives.
"These people are walking wounded, they're not whole people." Montee said.
Although the play is set in the Soviet Union and is written by a Soviet playwright, it doesn't carry a political message and it's not even distinctly Monteen. Monteen said
"That's what I like about Vampilov," Montee said. "He writes people plays that everyone can relate to; he doesn't write message plays."
'It is about people who are oppressed, unhappy and frustrated with their existence.
David Monte
Bartvillees, Okla.
graduate student
Montee said that the characters were generic and that the play could just as well have taken place in an Alaskan lodge.
translated into English, and only the characters' names and the background music are Russian.
"If people come to the play hoping to see the U.S.S.R criticized, I think they will miss the point and be disappointed." Monte said.
back, over him.
Jeff Sherr. Lawrence sophomore and the actor who portrays the old man, said it was harder to transform himself into his character than to learn the Russian names.
"The Russian names are easy for me because I studied Russian in school," Sherr said. "But it takes four hours for them to put my makeup on."
Sherl took eerie with the lumps of orangish stage makeup caked on his face. He said he got used to long makeup sessions when he played a 70-year-old man in last year's University Theatre production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
omitted. Monroe said.
The original script has been
Night.
"I think the makeup worked well then, but I'm anxious to see how this goes over because I've never been made up this much in such a small theatre," he said.
Before Vampirl's death in 1974 at the age of 35, he was one of the most popular playwrights in the Soviet Union. Montee said. Vampiri is virtually unknown in this country. Montee had learned about the playwright in a Russian drama class.
"I think people will like the play," he said. "Because, even though some of the characters do unlikable things. I think people will be able to relate to them and have sympathy for them."
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