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Public Health Chair David Larsen Receives Fulbright to Continue Research in Austria
When Falk College Department of Public Health Chair and Professor David Larsen was notified that he had received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to teach and continue his wastewater surveillance research at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria this…
Humanitarian Work in Water Systems
From the drylands of Kenya to the rainforests of Suriname, civil and environmental engineering professor John Trimmer in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has dedicated his career to making a difference. After a service-learning trip to Nicaragua, where…
Council of Europe Agreement a 鈥楪em of an Opportunity鈥 for 黑料不打烊 Students and Faculty
It is not every day that 黑料不打烊 partners with an international organization representing more than 700 million people. The Council of Europe and the University have announced a new agreement that strengthens and expands an existing relationship by providing…
Ukrainian Students Find Refuge in the Maxwell School Community
Yulia Bychkovska was in Boston in February 2022 when Russian missile attacks struck a mostly residential area west of her home in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Though she was in the U.S., she learned of the invasion before her mother. 鈥淚 had…
International Thanksgiving Dinner Brings Together Campus Community
More than 700 first-year international students and members of the University community recently came together to celebrate the University鈥檚 39th Annual International Thanksgiving Celebration. A beloved University tradition, it is believed to be the only celebration of its kind on…
Visiting Scholar From Ukraine Has Found Community, Continued Her Work at Maxwell School
On Feb. 24, 2022, Tetiana Hranchak awoke to the sound of explosions near her home in Kyiv, Ukraine. She expected Russia鈥檚 invasion and knew once it happened that she would leave her home country for the United States. Given her…
Reflecting on the Past, Offering Hope for the Future: Native American Students Help Curate Exhibition of Haudenosaunee Artist
Situated in the heart of the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, 黑料不打烊 is committed to supporting and facilitating Native American and Indigenous scholarship. Within the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), a recent collaboration between faculty and students…
Roundtable: 3 School of Education Alumni Define ‘Human Thriving’ in the Context of Global Diversity
鈥淗uman thriving鈥 is among the areas of distinctive excellence enumerated in the University鈥檚 2023 Academic Strategic Plan. This concept is inspired by the words of Chancellor Erastus Haven. In 1871, he charged 黑料不打烊 students 鈥渢o thrive here, to learn here,…
VPA Sophomore Wins Fellowship, Plans Film on the Mental Health of Refugee Youth
Rayan Mohamed, a sophomore film major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, has been selected as a 2023-2024 Imagining America/Joy of Giving Something Fellow. The program aims to elevate photography and digital media as pathways for undergraduate students…
Students Practice English, Make Friends and Build Community Within English Conversation Groups
Traveling the world during his time in the military, Antonio Herrera 鈥24 understood what it meant to be somewhere and not speak the native language. So when he heard about the English Conversation Group through the Center for International Services,…