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Graduate student receives fellowship for musical study\nKinga Skretkowicz-Ferguson, a graduate student in the School of Music, was named one of 30 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend and half the cost of tuition for up to two years of graduate study at any college or university in the United States.\nThe fellowship, now in its fourth year, is available for students who are naturalized citizens, resident aliens or the children of naturalized citizens. Thirty fellows were selected from more than 900 candidates. \n"Kinga truly exemplifies the kind of extraordinary creativity and determination to achieve professional excellence that Paul and Daisy Soros want to honor and support through this program," Warren Ilchman, director of the fellowship program, said. "Though she only came to this country several years ago, she has already shown that she has a wonderful talent and a commitment to do what is necessary to develop her voice and bring it to the attention of the opera world. We are delighted to be able to help support her graduate education."\nSkretkowicz-Ferguson was born in Poland, and sang as a soloist with the Polish Academy of Music and in a Polish ensemble group that traveled throughout Europe and Latin America. She earned her bachelor of arts in English at the University of Lodz and a masters of business administration at the University of Lyon, before moving to Bloomington.\nLecturer to focus on teaching, research\nLee Shulman, president of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, will speak today from 1-2 p.m. in the School of Education auditorium. A reception will follow in the atrium.\nShulman will speak on the concept of scholarly work as teaching, including rendering teaching public, subject to critical evaluation and usable by others in the scholarly and general community.\nSpeaker to address greek community\nWill Keim will speak to the greek community at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.\nKeim will be speaking about the greek community, how it can be improved and how to make it survive. \nEnvironmentalist to speak at Union about forest issues\nJulia Butterfly Hill, an environmental activist who lived in a giant redwood tree for more than two years, will speak at 7 p.m. March 27 in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union.\nHill, who lived in the tree to save it from being cut down, began touring the country after she secured the safety of the tree. She will speak on "Healthy Forests, Healthy Humans." \nShe will also be available to talk with religious studies and environmental studies students from 4-5 p.m. in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs atrium.\nEconomist studies national prosperity\nAn IU economist has completed a study on national economic prosperity.\nMorton J. Marcus, director of the Indiana Business Research Center, said increased productivity in the last 10 years has led to both increased unemployment and economic prosperity. \nBut he found that the positive results could be signs of recession to come in at least 15 states and maybe another 12 that he has been monitoring. \n"Normally when we talk about a recession, we talk about two consecutive quarters of decline in real output," Marcus said in a press release, "but let's consider another possibility -- we could have situations where real output increases because of increases in productivity and people are losing their jobs"