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Posted on April 8, 2010 - in International Education, Education
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Ibrahim Rustamov and his students. Photograph taken by University of Hartford’s

Muskie fellow Ibragimdzhon (Ibrahim) Rustamov brings students at a local elementary school in Connecticut to different classrooms around the world.

Posted on December 18, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Dr. Goshliyev speaks to health professionals

In 2008, Dr. Kemal Goshliyev returned to the Central Skin and Venereal Disease Hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan with a master’s degree in public health and a commitment to improve the...

Posted on December 16, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Bakai Madybaev and Warren Buffett display the flag of Kyrgyzstan

Bakai Madybaev, a 2009 Muskie fellow from Kyrgyzstan, had the chance to meet the investor, businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffett in November.

Posted on December 9, 2009 - in Higher Education Development, International Education
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Baktygoul Koubanytchbekova was amazed by the issues her fellow students raised in classes during her first few weeks at Columbia Law School. “Back in Kyrgyzstan we are very limited to the...

Posted on November 18, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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For the first time in twelve years, Georgia Southern University (GSU) has a Russian language and cultural course thanks to the volunteer efforts of Saida Akbarova, a 2008 Muskie fellow from...

“We come from many places, but we share a common future,” President Barack Obama said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly this September. This statement could not be...

Posted on November 13, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Alexandru Mocanu outside a polling site

On November 3, 2009, Virginians elected a new governor, and Muskie fellows Alexandru Mocanu and Andriy Olenyuk were in the thick of the excitement as poll monitoring volunteers.

Posted on November 2, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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From September 2-11, Aicholpon Jorupbekova, a 2004 Muskie alumna, organized therapeutic dance classes on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan for 25 young people from Obereg, a...

Posted on October 29, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Andro Gigauri (center) with LSC staff.

Andro Gigauri, a 2008 Muskie fellow from Georgia, learned more about the U.S. legal aid system during his summer internship at the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in Washington, DC and made...

Posted on September 14, 2009 - in Gender, Youth
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The teenage years are rocky for most people, male or female, with self-esteem decreasing for both sexes after elementary school. However, the drop is more dramatic for girls, and in a male-...