Two researchers awarded Myroslava Iwanciw Grant
This was the fifth year that grants from the Myroslawa Iwanciw Endowment Fund were distributed at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The Myroslawa Iwanciw Fund was created in 2016 to support research work at NaUKMA. This year there were two winners of grants from the Endowment. Both award recipients are engaged in fascinating work that is usually overlooked by donors, but research in these areas is essential for the preservation and development of Ukraine’s history and environmental concerns of the land.
Oleh Bilynskyj, PhD candidate, senior lecturer at the Department of Archeology. His research project is titled, “The settlement system of the Dnipro forest-steppe of the Left Bank, as a reflection of cultural and historical processes since Scythian time”, and
Olena M. Kozak, PhD candidate, senior lecturer of the Department of Ecology. Her research work is titled, “Competitive Interactions of Native and Invasive Plant Species on the territory of Ukraine”.
About Dr. Myroslawa Iwanciw
Myroslawa Iwantsiw (Mysko), (1919-2021), was born in Vynnyky, Lviv region. She graduated from high school in Lviv in 1938, and after escaping from both the German and the Soviet occupation of Lviv during the Second World War, she studied dentistry in Warsaw, then Berlin and Wroclaw. She met her husband Ivan Iwantsiw in the displaced persons camp near Regensburg and they married in 1948. Together they moved to Heidelberg University , where Ivan completed his medical studies, and Myroslawa obtained her doctorate in dentistry in 1950.
Dr. Iwanciw retained a great fondness for her homeland and held a strong desire to return. She returned to Ukraine many times and helped family and friends. She was a strong supporter and consistent donor to numerous Ukrainian charitable organizations, but her focus was on education. She sponsored the studies of many young Ukrainians both in the United States and at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.She and her husband were founding members of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta in Canada where they established an endowment fund.She established an endowment fund for research work at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and donated to the university since its rebirth in 1992.
