[aaus-list] Ukrainian students to enter Princeton, Yale, MIT, and Vassar on full scholarships.

[Bohdan Oryshkevich]

This year for the first time, different Ukrainian students as a result of the USA/USA Program have won full four year college scholarships in one year to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton   In addition, another student has won a scholarship to Vassar.  These students will attend Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Vassar.
   
  Also, additional USA/USA Seminar alumnae have won the TR Young Innovator Year Award and the St. Gallen University Symposium Essay Competition. 
   
  Bohdan A. Oryshkevich
  Founder, USA/USA Program 
  New York City
   
  USA/USA-YKRAMERZHA Program results for the 2007-08 application season.
    
  Yuliya Dovzhenko, of Vilnohirsk, Dnipropetrovs’k oblast was accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Caltech and perhaps elsewhere with full scholarships.  She is graduating from Leysin American in Switzerland.  She is going to Princeton.  She is planning to major in mathematics and perhaps computer science.  Yuliya scored 800 on every SAT math I, physics and math SAT subject tests that she took from her applications to preparatory schools to college.  That was five consecutive 800s.  Her mother is a single parent.  Last year, she won the Stanford University summer math camp scholarship: http://math.stanford.edu/sumac.  
   
  Mykhaylo Lemesh, of Zaporizhzhia City, was accepted to Columbia, Georgetown, Hamilton and Yale Colleges with a full scholarship.  He is graduating from Deerfield.  He is planning to attend Yale.  Mykhaylo is interested in political science.  He is also a skilled oarsman and will row for Yale.  Mykhaylo began rowing in Zaporizhzhia and has rowed in every position in a singles, pairs, doubles, fours with and without coxswains, and eights.  When we took him in 2003, he barely knew English.  His first score on the Verbal SAT was 270.  His second was 370.  It is now much improved.  He is remarkably driven and hard working.  I would add that he comes from an ordinary family and his parents are divorced. 
   
  Anna Levina, of Kharkiv City was accepted to Lafayette, Mt. Holyoke, MIT, Princeton, and Wellesley with full scholarships.  She is graduating from St. Mark’s in Massachusetts.  She is going to MIT.  She plans to study chemistry.  Everyone in her family is somehow involved in chemistry.  Her father works for a pharmaceutical company in Kharkiv, her mother teaches in her high school in Kharkiv, and her brother is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry.  She reflects a new phenomenon in Ukraine.  She has no Ukrainian blood and her mother is from the Ural region of Russia.  But Anna went to a Ukrainian language school and her mother learned Ukrainian in order to teach in the same school her daughter attended. 
   
  Iryna Shakhmantsir of Rivne City was accepted to Vassar with full financial aid.  She is graduating from Hotchkiss.  She is the former English language Olympiad champion of Ukraine.  She is planning to major in biology.  But she also has strong interests in the humanities.  Her father is a policeman.  Her mother is a pharmacist.  An online profile of Iryna Shakhmantsir is at: http://www.ukrainianscholarships.org/?p=63 
   
  Alina Pankova of Sevastopol won a two year prep school scholarship to the Miller School in Charlottesville Virginia and to the Cate School in California.  Alina is interested in studying chemistry.  But she is also a gifted writer and graphics artist.  Several years ago, she won the Prosvita award for the best Ukrainian language book written by a child.  It is an alphabet book for children.  It is a handmade card board book in a pentagonal shape with petals as if in a flower.  Each petal contains a letter and a short poem using a word beginning in the said letter.  She also won the logo competition for the Sevastopol FC soccer team. 
   
  Olga Davydenko is finishing Union College and is entering the University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. program in molecular and cellular biology.  She is from Sevastopol.  She received grants from numerous other universities.
   
  In the fall of 2007, Kateryna Shishova earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is originally from Kerch in Ukraine.  She is now a post-doctoral student at Harvard Medical School.  She attended Mt. Holyoke College.  She also has an M.A. from Stanford University in chemistry. 
   
  Kateryna Peremanova of Sevastopol won the St. Gallen University Symposium essay competition (http://www.stgallen-symposium.org/symposium.htm) and as a result earned an all expenses paid trip to Switzerland to participate in its international symposium.  She is a senior at Berea College in Kentucky majoring in political science. 
   
  In the last academic year, Anna Lysyanskaya of Brown, was selected as TR 35 Young Innovator by MIT's Tech Review Magazine.  She is an assistant professor at Brown University.  She was in our first seminar in 1992.  She graduated from Smith College Phi Beta Kappa and has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.  She is originally from Kyiv. 
   
  We now have two faculty members at Ivy League Universities: Anna Lysyanskaya at Brown and Yuliya Komska at Dartmouth.  
   
  Yuliya Komska joined the faculty of Dartmouth as an instructor in German Studies at Dartmouth College.  Yuliya Komska earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from Cornell University in 2007.  Yuliya graduated from Colby College, Phi Beta Kappa.  Yuliya Komska is originally from Lviv. 
   
  The scholarship earnings this year for our undergraduate and prep school students total around $700,000.  That does not include the graduate student grants.
   
  We are looking for benefactors and volunteers to help us continue and improve our work.  Please visit our recently reconstructed website at www.ukrainianscholarships.org; you can write to us at info at ukrainianscholarships.org or at USA/USA, 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 606, New York NY 10038; you can also phone us at 1-212-785-4170. 
   
   
  Recent AAUS links about the USA/USA Program:  
   
  http://www.brama.com/pipermail/aaus-list/2007-November/001958.html 
  11.05.2007 USA/USA-YKRAMEREZHA graduate students represent a diverse group.
   
  http://www.brama.com/pipermail/aaus-list/2007-October/001950.html 
  New USA/USA-YKRAMEREZHA students utilizing over 1.5 million dollars in scholarships
   
  http://www.brama.com/pipermail/aaus-list/2007-August/001791.html 
  Ukrainian students open office on Wall Street
   
   
   
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