UD's Salzburg Seminar Selection Committee, in collaboration with the Center for International Studies, is now accepting proposals from faculty and professional staff interested in participating in the 2002 Salzburg Seminar.

Proposals to the UD committee are due by 4:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3. The faculty committee is chaired by Arno Loessner, Institute for Public Administration, and includes Bahram Rajaeem, Center for International Studies; Karen Curtis, community development and family policy; Philip Flynn, English; and Marian Lief Palley, political science and international relations.

Interested faculty and professional staff may submit a proposal, not to exceed two pages, identifying the session they wish to attend, and explaining how it would enhance their teaching, research and/or public service work at the University.

The seminar offers a fellowship that covers half the cost of tuition, room and board, with the other half to be sponsored by the Center for International Studies. Applicants are asked to include with their proposal a memo addressed to the selection committee from their department chair and/or dean indicating support for their participation and willingness to pay the cost of round-trip and other travel expenses to Salzburg.

Some of the 2002 session topics include "The Continuing Challenge of America's Ethnic Pluralism" (Feb. 23 to March 2), "Achieving Food Security Through Community-Based Food Systems" (May 1-8) and "From Page to Screen–Adapting Literature to Film" (Oct. 2-9). For complete information, visit [www.salzburg seminar.org] and go to programs, 2002 calendar and look at numbered sessions only, beginning with Session 395. Interested UD faculty and professional staff must first submit proposals to the University-wide selection committee, which will, in turn, propose up to two UD candidates to the Salzburg Seminar.

The Salzburg Seminar was founded in 1947 in Austria. "There are hundreds of seminars in the prestige-conscious firmament of academe," Newsweek magazine has written, "but few can rival the eminence of the Salzburg program."

Questions about the application process at UD may be sent to [loessner@udel.edu].