Dear PhD Students and Faculty, Allow me to take a moment to recognize PhD student Lee Ann Ghajar who was one of the Cosmos Club Foundation's 2009 Young Scholars Award winners. These awards have been presented annually since 1998, providing grants to graduate students at twelve Washington-area universities to meet unexpected and otherwise unsupported aspects of their research. Lee Ann was one of 24 Cosmos Scholars selected from a field of 241 applicants for her research on "Tredegar Iron Works: Industrial Survival and Growth in the South from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age." More information can be found at http://www.cosmosclubfoundation.org/index.html. Congratulations to Lee Ann! Steve -- Steven A. Barnes Assistant Professor of Russian History George Mason University 4400 University Dr, MSN 3G1 Fairfax, VA 22030 703-993-1247 [log in to unmask] http://gulaghistory.org