NSB Spring 2013 - University of Nevada, Reno

Friends
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Vice President of Research Marsha Read, College of Liberal Arts Dean Heather
Hardy, Bilinski Educational Foundation director Fred Springer, Bilinski
Educational Foundation Executive Director Bonnie Severietti, Stuart Golder,
College of Liberal Arts director of development; and John Carothers, vice
president of Development and Alumni Relations and executive director of the
University of Nevada, Reno Foundation.
Bilinski Educational Foundation
creates Ph.D. fellowships for
College of Liberal Arts
The College of Liberal Arts has received a grant from the Bilinski Educational
Foundation to fund dissertation-year fellowships for Ph.D. students in
the humanities and social sciences. The $500,000 gift creates the Russell J. and
Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship Fund for Land-Grant Liberal Arts Scholarship.
Over the next three years, this fund will support 20 students during the year
they anticipate completing their dissertations.
Based in Point Reyes Station, Calif., the Bilinski Educational Foundation
was founded in 2009 by the estate of Russell and Dorothy Bilinski, lifelong
advocates of higher education and community responsibility. The Bilinski
fellowships will include a stipend, fringe benefits including course fees and a
modest travel allowance. The first fellowships will be awarded in the 2013-14
school year.
Fred Springer, a Bilinski Educational Foundation director, nominated the
University based on his knowledge of the area and ties to the Reno business
community.
“We are thrilled to support the many outstanding graduate programs in the
College of Liberal Arts,” Springer says.
The college submitted a proposal for the fellowship funding, highlighting
the college’s commitment to serve the mission of land grant universities: to
create and disseminate knowledge and critical understanding of cultures,
peoples, history and heritage of the state and region, and to promote essential
service to and educate professionals for the state and region, given Nevada’s
needs and the composition of its population.
For example, faculty and students working in the clinical psychology
program, nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report, serve the needs of
several at-risk groups, including trauma survivors and people with HIV. Students
studying in the behavior analysis program work directly with children
affected by autism spectrum disorders in an early-treatment program that has
served as a worldwide model.
—Roseann Keegan
To learn more about supporting the College of Liberal Arts, please contact Stuart
Golder ’91, ’97M.A., development director, (775) 784-1222 or sgolder@unr.edu.
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