Tag: International Studies: Page 4

Rhodes Trust Names 32 American Students to Study at Oxford

Thirty-two college students from across the United States — three of whom attend school in Pennsylvania…

November 21, 2005

Grants & Awards

Davidson College (N.C.) received a $4 million commitment from The Duke Endowment to renovate the James B. Duke Residence Hall and establish it as the permanent home of the college’s Dean Rusk International Studies Program. Jackson State University (Miss.) received a five-year, $5 million grant from former Netscape Corp. president and CEO James Barksdale to […]

September 21, 2005

Maryland to Lead Major U.S. Homeland Security Behavioral Research Center

Maryland to Lead Major U.S. Homeland Security Behavioral Research CenterCOLLEGE PARK, Md.The University of Maryland will be home to a major U.S.-sponsored social and behavioral research center dedicated to reducing worldwide terrorism. Its research will focus on areas such as how to disrupt the formation of terror networks and minimize the impact of future attacks.U.S. […]

January 26, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Restoring a Ruptured Relationship

Restoring a Ruptured RelationshipBarnard College’s Caryl Phillips’ senior english seminar focuses on broken international connections and culminates with a trans-Atlantic journey By Crystal L. KeelsMillions of African people who were captured, kidnapped and shackled for sale as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade first passed through Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, West Africa. They stepped […]

November 3, 2004

Berkeley’s ‘Best-Kept’ Secret

Berkeley’s ‘Best-Kept’ SecretNational summit seeks to involve youth in how communities are redeveloped By Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.“I always planned to drop out of high school and have three kids,” exclaims a smiling young woman swaddling a baby. “I’ve always wanted to have asthma,” rejoices a corn-rowed teenager, standing in front of a construction site that […]

August 25, 2004

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]

July 14, 2004

Faculty & Staff

In Memoriam: Ruth Simms Hamilton

In MemoriamRuth Simms Hamilton (1937-2003)The Michigan State University community, along with others in higher education, mourned the loss of long-time MSU professor of sociology Ruth Simms Hamilton. She was 66 years old.“Dr. Hamilton was a valued member of our community for more than 30 years,” said Dr. Marietta Baba, dean of the MSU College of […]

December 17, 2003

HACU Calls on Congress to Increase Funding for HSIs

HACU Calls on Congress to Increase Funding for HSIsBy Ben Hammer The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) is calling on Congress to increase funding for Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) in a bill that addresses Title V funding for the upcoming fiscal year 2004. HACU is calling for increased spending in several areas of the […]

October 8, 2003

Asian American Pacific Islander

Diversity Intersects With National Security

Diversity Intersects With National SecurityThe UNCF’s Institute for International Public Policy plans to engage ‘unusual suspects’ in a discussion on the global importance of a diverse work force By Cassie ChewAfter nine years of sending African American, Hispanic, Asian American and American Indian undergraduate students around the globe to study the socio-economic and political structure […]

September 10, 2003

Barcelona Journal:Learning and Living

Barcelona Journal:Learning and Living in the WorldStory and Photos by Kristina Lane BARCELONA, Spain At the seaside end of Barcelona’s most famous boulevard, La Rambla, soars a statue of Christopher Columbus, his right arm stretching west, his outward gaze fixed on the horizon. The statue represents the pervasive mindset of Catalonia: a country must always […]

August 13, 2003

Hispanic Leaders Seek to Create ‘New Era’ of Higher Education Excellence

Hispanic Leaders Seek to Create ‘New Era’ of Higher Education ExcellenceBy Charles Dervarics An expanded Pell Grant and greater financial aid access to immigrant students are among the major themes of a new package of Higher Education Act improvements proposed by Hispanic higher education leaders. As the U.S. Congress prepares to review HEA, the plan […]

July 2, 2003

African-American

Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank

Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank WASHINGTON Howard University hopes to create the nation’s largest bank of DNA from Black Americans with the aim of studying genes involved in diseases that disproportionately strike Blacks. The DNA bank isn’t funded yet, but the university announced last month that it would work with a well-known database […]

June 18, 2003

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