April 21, 2000
Contact: Mary Jane Dunlap, University Relations, (785) 864-8853.
LAWRENCE--Two University of Kansas graduate students have received scholarships for international study from the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation.
Gregory William Douros of Lawrence and Martin Lorenz-Meyer of Germany will be honored during a May 8 luncheon in the Imperial Ballroom of the Muehlebach Towers, Kansas City, Mo.
Douros, a master's student in sociology, received a Jerry Smith Scholarship for International Studies of $1,000. Douros is working on a master's thesis on the historical development and resolution of the Nicaraguan student movement. He has spent over a year in Nicaragua doing research, and social and medical volunteer work, and plans to return to Managua this summer to continue his research interviews.
Lorenz-Meyer, a doctoral student in history, received the 2000 Eddie Jacobson Scholarship for International Studies of $1,000. Lorenz-Meyer's doctoral dissertation examines the Allies' program to control the flow of Nazi assets into hidden bank accounts in Germany at the end of World War II. Lorenz-Meyer, who plans to finish his research in England and France, has studied previously at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and at Third University in Rome.
All scholarships are given annually and are named after the founders of the Harry S. Truman Foundation.
In 1985, the foundation began offering scholarships to students from KU, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.