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Show x'iesoa J Admitted to Indian Studies Institute "ve-sity has been admitted to membership in the American I The ian Studies, an inter-university organization supporting istitute o United States through research by American CttidlGS ' liic "iian , j o Thrnush its membership the University is represented . , i-rc jn Inula. i"luuo Institute's Board of Trustees and joins the universities of California, Minnesota, Michigan, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Wis- th'Cag'-r .,c -,nd Columbia, among others, in determining its policy lonsin, Texas, .nu Ind program Thg Institute has estabiished an The Institute has established an office in Poona, India, with a resident resi-dent director. President of the Institute In-stitute is W. Norman Brown, outstanding out-standing Sanskrit scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. William Mulder, Director of the Center for Intercultural Studies, made the aonlication and attended the October 25 meeting of the Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania at which the University was admitted. admit-ted. The Institute, under a grant agreement with the Department of State and with additional support from the Ford Foundation, offers fellowships in three categories. Faculty Research Fellows, who are established scholars in Indian Studies Stud-ies and Faculty Training Fellows, who are not Indian specialists but wish to do research in India for their doctoral dissertation, are eligible. eli-gible. In addition the Institute grants international travel to and from India to holders of approved fellowships fellow-ships which do not provide such travel. |