Professor selected as reviewer

Robert von Dassanowsky, professor, Languages and Cultures and Visual and Performing Arts, was recently selected as the external reviewer of an Atlantis Program’s Grant for Virginia Commonwealth University’s transatlantic master’s degree in foreign language and film studies. Supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture, the program provides grants for four to five years to add a European Union-United States dimension to international curriculum development and related student exchange. He will attend the Atlantis Project Directors’ conference Oct. 13-15 in Berlin.