The View From Kalamazoo

Goodbye, John Hughes.

You captured a whole generation with your films, you made us laugh and cry and comb our hair into ducktails and you were pretty frikken awesome. I can’t imagine being a teen in the 80s without you.

R.I.P.

I’ve been occupied with that thing called real life, but ran across this info and thought one of you might be interested:

The American Council of Learned Societies offers several outstanding
fellowship opportunities (http://www.acls.org/programs/comps/), including the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for students at the dissertation stage. These one-year fellowships for students in the humanities and social sciences, to begin summer 2010, offer a stipend of $25,000 plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000. Completed applications must include a 25-page excerpt from a completed dissertation chapter (other than the introduction, conclusion, or literature review) and are due online no later than 9 p.m. on
Nov. 11, 2009.

Please bring this opportunity to the attention of eligible students. More information is available at: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512