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JEWISH STUDIES NEWS (September 2011):
Summer Scholarship Opportunity for Study Abroad!
Jewish Studies Summer Travel Grant available to USC students!
The Jewish Studies Summer Travel Grant, a financial award of $2,000, may be used to help
fund a Maymester or summer study abroad program for undergraduate students having an established interest
in Jewish Studies. Students who are ineligible to receive a Summer Study Abroad Fellowship or compete
for a Passport Travel Grant are qualified to compete for this award. In order to be considered for a
Jewish Studies Summer Travel Grant, applicants must have an established and continuing interest in
Jewish Studies, be earning at least three credits for the study abroad program, and be in good academic
standing with a minimum 3.0 GPA.
The Jewish Studies Summer Travel Grant application is due on Feb. 1,
before noon to the Study Abroad Office.
For more information about the Jewish Studies Summer Travel Grant, please contact the Study Abroad
Office at 803-777-7557 or visit our website at
www.studyabroad.sc.edu.
Rabbi Meir Muller appointed as Consulting Faculty
The Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce the
appointment of Rabbi Professor Meir Muller as the newest member of our consulting faculty.
In light of his joining the faculty in the College of Education,
and his interests in early childhood Jewish education, the Jewish
Studies Program has invited Rabbi Meir to join us in the role of consulting faculty.
We are delighted to report that he has accepted our invitation.
Rabbi Muller, founder and principal of the Columbia Jewish Day School, earned his Ph.D. in
2010 from the University of South Carolina, and has recently been appointed as a Clinical Assistant
Professor in the Department of Instruction & Teacher Education in USC's College of Education.
His dissertation, titled "Kindergarten Children’s Conception of Knowledge in Jewish Education",
was directed by Dr. Irma Van Scoy.
Rabbi Meir, in the past few years, has lectured extensively on early childhood and Jewish education
at conferences and invited venues in South Carolina, Maryland, San Francisco, and Haifa, Israel.
Rabbi Meir's participation in our program brings the number of consulting faculty to fifteen, with
representation from nine academic departments in the College of Arts & Sciences, and one faculty
member each from the School of Law, the School of Medicine, and (now) the College of Education.
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