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The literary and scientific competition of the UVU Foundation among works published in 2021 is announced

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The Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) announces the 2021 literary and scientific publication competition. Winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes from the Foundation, established on December 31, 1997 by the families of Stefan and Emilia Volyanik and Theodore and Sophia Schwabinski from Ohio, as well as from additional funds donated by the Foundation itself. The competition is held every year. Please send your works that first appeared in print in 2021 (not reprints) by June 30, 2022 to the office of the UVU Foundation with a cover letter to: Ukrainian Free University Foundation, 136 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The cover letter, signed by the author of the book (or the compiler of the collection), should contain a formal request to review the book... Read more

The laureates of the FUVU competition named after Volyanik-Shwabinsky

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The jury consisting of Olga Volyanyk-Kuzyshyn, Ihor Nikolyuk, Larisa Zanyk and Hanna Dudyk made a decision to honor the participants of the literary and scientific competition named after the Volyanyk-Shwabinsky Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University for works published in 2020. The first prize was awarded to Roman Horak for the biography of Vasyl Stefanyk, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding classic writer and public figure, a prominent master of the psychological novel, storyteller, world-class short story writer. The author's long-term research work made it possible to create a thorough publication about V. Stefanyk as a world novelist. The second prize was awarded to the following works: - The journalistic essay "Beast from the East" by Oleksandr Maslyanyk. The work talks about how Muscovites killed Ukrainians for centuries, covering themselves with mantras about a single, fraternal nation that... Read more

Sl. memorial Ivan Burtyk

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It is with deep sadness that we announce that on Sunday, October 31, 2021, in the 97th year of a sacrificial life, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation, its first chairman, an honorary doctor of the Ukrainian Free University and a long-time worker in the public field, ended his earthly journey. Ukraine and in the diaspora memorial Ivan BURTYK was born on December 13, 1924 in the village of Liatsk-Shliahotsk in the Carpathian region. Buried at the cemetery of St. Andrew in South Bound Brook, NJ. Soldier of the Second Division of the Ukrainian National Army. He participated in the battles at the end of the war, an active public figure, a long-time member of the Organization for the Defense of the Four Freedoms of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America, a member of the OUN (b) from ... Read more

St. p. Yaroslav Oberyshyn

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It is with deep sadness that we announce that on September 20, 2021, at the age of 93, in Columbus, OH, the long-time financier of the Foundation, long-time member of the Foundation Board, long-time trustee of the Foundation, including the term of 2021-2022 St. Mr. Yaroslav OBERISHYN St. Mr. Yaroslav worked for many years at Kreditivka Samopomich New York. He supported many public organizations, in particular the church of St. Yura and Plast. He was a veteran of the Korean War, a kind, calm person, modest and self-sacrificing. Buried St. Mr. Yaroslav Oberyshyn at the cemetery of St. Spirit at Campbell Hall, NY, near wife Gali and family. Eternal memory to Him!

Laureates of the Literary and Scientific Competition of the UVU Foundation named after Volyanik-Shwabinsky for works published in 2019

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The jury of the Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU), consisting of Maria Polishchuk, Olga Volyanyk-Kuzyshyn, Leonid Rudnytskyi, Ihor Mirchuk, and Ihor Nikolyuk, made the final decision regarding awarding prizes to the laureates of the Literary and Scientific Competition named after Volyanik-Shwabinsky for works published in 2019. The first prize was awarded to Volodymyr Svyatnenko for the novel "Samurai. Ukrainian history". The author depicts the events of the Kholodnoyarsk Republic. Considerable attention is paid in the book to the analysis of the difference between the psychology of Ukrainians and Russians and the similarity of the mentality of Ukrainian Cossacks and Japanese samurai in the struggle for justice and independence of their state. The second prize was awarded to: - Myroslav Lazaruk for the novel in short stories "Chortoriy delusions-visions", in which the author vividly highlights the revelation of the talent of a unique ... Read more

Відбулися річні загальні збори Фундації УВУ

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27 березня 2021 рокувідбулися річні загальні збори членів Фундації Українського Вільного Університету. Через пандемію коронавірусу цей захід відбувся повністю віртуально. Зборами провадила президія у складі: Аскольд Лозинський – голова, Степан Слуцький – секретар. Збори обрали Номінаційну комісію у складі Богдан Гаргай, Леонід Рудницький і Ольга Воляник. Учасники заслухали інформацію про діяльність Українського Вільного Університету (УВУ) від ректора Марії Пришляк та звіти голови фундації А. Лозинського, заступників голови Л. Рудницького та Івана Буртика, секретаря С. Слуцького, скарбника Руслани Россі, членів управи Юрія Стецка та Андрія Шуля. За Контрольну комісію звітував її голова Б. Гаргай. Загалом, протягом останнього академічного року на УВУ … Read more

Cв. п. д-р Олександер Лужницький

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З глибоким смутком повідомляємо українську громаду, що 12 березня 2021 року відійшов у засвіти довголітній член Фундації Українського Вільного Унівесритету, дійсний член Наукового Товариства Шевченка (США) св. п. д-р Олександер ЛУЖНИЦЬКИЙ педагог, редактор, громадський i освітний дiяч, голова Філядельфійського Реґіонального Комітету Енциклопедії Української Діяспори. Народився 28 вересня 1940 року у м. Львів. Вищу освіту здобув в Ла Саль (La Salle) Коледж (1961) та Пенсильванському Університеті (1964). Працював директором «Нашої Української Школи» (1964-1976), директором «Нашої Української Рідної Школи» (1990-2003), екзекутивним заступником Шкільної Ради (2001-2010), інспектором українських шкіл в Америці. Св. п. д-р Олександер Лужницький був автором низки наукових праць, зокрема: “Ukrainians … Read more

Проголошено Літературно-науковий конкурс ФУВУ серед праць, вперше опублікованих у 2020 році

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The Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (FUU) announces the Literary and Scientific Competition among publications of 2020. The winners of the competition will be awarded cash prizes from the Foundation, established on December 31, 1997 by the families of Stefan and Emilia Volyanik and Theodore and Sofia Schwabinski from Ohio in the USA, as well as from additional funds donated by the Foundation itself. The competition is held every year. Please send your works that first appeared in print in 2020 (not reprints) by June 30, 2021 to the office of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation: Ukrainian Free University Foundation, 136 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. The goal is to recognize the best scientific works with Ukrainian studies topics and literary works of various genres, written in Ukrainian or ... Read more

Bohdan Kachor passed away

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У понеділок,  22 лютого 2021 року, на 97-му році життя, в Кергонксоні, Ню-Йорк, відійшов у вічність український суспільно-культурний та політичний діяч, голова Світової ліґи українських політичних в’язнів Богдан Качор. Він народився 14 листопада 1924 року в селі Лешнів Бродівського повіту (тепер – Золочівського району Львівської области) у сім’ї місцевих селян. У часи німецької окупації навчався у Бродівській торговельній школі, належав до Юнацтва ОУН та виконував функції зв’язкового. Влітку 1943 року за підпільну націоналістичну діяльність був заарештований ґестапо, перебував у тюрмах Бродів, Золочева та Лонцького у Львові. У жовтні 1943 року етапований до німецького концентраційного табору Авшвіц. З наближенням фронту переведений … Read more

Maria Pryshlyak: The Ukrainian Free University has been operating for 100 years

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MUNICH. - 100 years ago, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, co-author of the first draft of the charter of the Ukrainian Free University (UUU), wrote that the task of the university was first of all nation-building - in other words, the consolidation of Ukrainian identity and national consciousness, as well as the integration of Ukrainian education, science and culture into the world. During its hundred years of existence, UVU faithfully fulfilled this task. UVU became a pioneer of Ukrainian science. In Prague, in addition to teaching general disciplines - archeology, history, geography, history of Roman literature, Greek mythology, jurisprudence, pedagogy, organic chemistry, political economy, foreign languages, etc., UVU actually developed the first purely Ukrainian educational programs and conducted courses on Ukrainian historiography and source studies, history of Ukrainian art, ... Read more