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UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 33, May 29
                                   
                         1997 Salzburg fellows
     
     Silvia Weyerbrock, food and resource economics, and
Beth Haslett, communication and women's studies, have been
selected as UD's 1997 Salzburg Seminar fellows.
     Weyerbrock will attend the October session on "Europe:
Consolidation and Enlargement," which will consider such
topics as the expansion of the European Union (EU) to
include Eastern European nations, the future role of
Southern European nations and the formation of the European
Monetary Union.
     A graduate of the University of Gottingen, Germany,
Weyerbrock has a master's degree and doctorate in
agricultural and resource economics from the University of
California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on EU's Common
Agriculture Policy and economic integration involving the EU
and Eastern European countries. Using a large simulation
model of Europe, she studies the budgetary and external
implications of EU membership for Eastern European
countries.
     Haslett will attend the November session on "Non-
Governmental Organizations: Leadership and Civil Society."
The session will focus on the problems confronting leaders
of non-governmental organizations, balancing the demands of
the real world and the mission of their organizations, and
will address women's leadership issues.
     The session will examine how traditions of leadership
vary across cultures, how leadership is identified and
sustained and how leadership differs in the public, private
and non-governmental sectors. According to Haslett, her
research, teaching and service activities, which are
centered around gender, organizational, cultural and
leadership issues, will benefit from participation in the
seminar.
     A graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she
also earned her doctorate after receiving her master's
degree from the University of Wisconsin, Haslett joined the
UD faculty in 1987. She helped teach the first women's
studies course on campus, has chaired the Commission on the
Status of Women and helped implement an institution self-
study of sex equity on campus, developed by the Carnegie
Foundation. She currently serves as director of the Women's
Studies Interdisciplinary Program.
     She is coauthor, with F. L. Geis and M.R. Carter of The
Organizational Woman: Power and Paradox. She has been
involved with programs on and off campus dealing with gender
and leadership issues, including the UD Leadership 2000
program, and is planning to develop a course, "Gender,
Culture and Leadership."