Commitment Made as Part of Clinton Global Initiative NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The American University in Dubai AUD announced at the Clinton Global Initiative CGI Annual Meeting that it has made a commitment to offer US$26million in scholarship funds to outstanding students in financial need all...
Allan Lichtman, a political forecaster, will be the speaker for a free, public presentation on the presidential election at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 in the University of Central Oklahoma's Pegasus Theater. Lichtman is a professor of history at American University in Washington, D.C., and an author of The...
Danielle Geong of Piedmont, daughter of William and Mary Geong, graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from American University in Washington, D.C., in May 2008. She served as the deputy director of the Women's Initiative arm of the AU Student Government. As a legal intern...
The skies of Babylon; diversity, nihilism, and the American university. Bercier, Barry. Intercollegiate Studies Institute 2007 165 pages $25.00 Hardcover Religion and contemporary culture LA227 Bercier (theology, Assumption College) finds that a "P.C." political correctness anger and nihilism has infected western...
Forever, For Always, For Love: Kyle E. Roseman took Michele P. Tapp to be his wife in District Heights, MD. The bride is a graduate of Bucknell University and American University, where she earned her Masters in Journalism, She is the founder of the greeting card company C.U.E. Cardz. The...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DR. SCOTT A. BASS has been named provost of American University in Washington, D.C., effective July 1. He is currently vice president for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He earned a bachelor's, master's and doctorate from the University...
Painter and futurist thinker Five years ago, Magda Cordell McHale broke her hip in a fall. Clearly in pain, she was being taken by stretcher to a waiting ambulance when, in her inimitable Hungarian basso profundo, she suddenly boomed "Stop!". The startled medics did, at which McHale reached...
With impressive pockets of wealth bulging around the globe, naming rights have evolved into a new export category. With domestic demand slumping, exports (up 15.5 percent in March from last year) are keeping the economy afloat. So great is the demand for U.S. products, thanks to the weak dollar,...
UNIVERSITIES With the vast wealth that comes from its natural gas reserves, Qatar is building an elite education centre by inviting in five top American universities - and the British are nowhere to be seen. Lucy Hodges reports It was amazingly lavish but erring -...
The making of Americans in Paris; the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein. Sloboda, Noel. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2008 195 pages $67.95 Hardcover American University studies; XXIV, American literature; v.77 PS3545 Sloboda (Pennsylvania State U.-York) seeks reasons for the...
Comparative cinema; how American university students view foreign films. Ed. by Beate Allert. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2008 345 pages $119.95 Hardcover PN1993 Allert (foreign languages and literature, Purdue U.) offers a collection of critical essays on European film written by approximately 20...
When Stephen Lumpkins entered Serra High in the fall of 2004, he stood 5-foot-8. Serra coach Chuck Rapp had no idea what kind of player Lumpkins would become. "As a freshman he was a three guy, a small forward," Rapp said. "Even then he could score. And...
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Apogee Global Resources, Inc. has named Edward W. "Skip" Gnehm Jr. to its board of directors. "Ambassador Gnehm is a well respected diplomat and will greatly assist us with international business development," says Ronald D. Mathis, President of Apogee Global Resources. "We are excited to have...
Stacey Roebuck is the new public relations director for the American University of Healing Arts, a massage therapy school at Pavilion in the Park in Little Rock. Tina Sharif, a licensed massage therapist, has more than 15 years experience teaching massage, anatomy and physiology, also join the school.
WASHINGTON -- Why isn't American University America's Team? Its colors are red, white and blue. It plays in the Patriot League. And its mascot is an eagle. Here's the rub: AU has never put the madness in March. The Eagles are among...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Bob Johnson, Marketing & Communications Manager of Lebanese American University, +1-212-870-2585 Lebanese American University faculty member offers two lectures: 'Children as Peace Builders' and 'Learning to dialogue with the other,' April 3 & 4 NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Irma Ghosn, director of Lebanese...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Bob Johnson, Marketing & Communications Manager of Lebanese American University, +1-212-870-2585 Lebanese American University faculty member offers two lectures: 'Children as Peace Builders' and 'Learning to dialogue with the other,' April 3 & 4 NEW YORK, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Irma Ghosn, director of Lebanese...
WASHINGTON -- American University senior Josh Glenn has a double academic major: U.S. foreign policy and law & society. A year after becoming his school's first NCAA wrestling champion, he intends to double that up, too. Glenn won his title despite a knee injury in his...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jeffrey Buchanan of the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights, +1-202-463-7575 ext. 241, buchanan@rfkmemorial.org Rights & Democracy and RFK Memorial Center for Human Rightsto hostconference with American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Lawon March 7th, 9 am - 1:15...
Are French and German students being brainwashed to reject capitalism, despise the entrepreneurial spirit, and oppose globalization? Stefan Theil believes so ("Europe's Philosophy of Failure," January/February 2008). He lashes out at the presumably ill-informed and misleading economics curriculum in Europe. He even holds the economics...
