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Posted on July 30, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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UGRAD alumna Zhanar Zhaxylykova (2007-2008) believes that kids with disabilities have the right to perform in concerts, play sports, socialize, and do all the other things their peers without...

Posted on July 14, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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Two young men running more than 600 miles in 41 days across the largest country inside Europe is not just impressive, it was enough to raise over $50,000 for premature babies in Ukraine.

Closer to the Pacific Ocean than the Volga River, the Russian Far East is home to astounding natural beauty, but local unemployment and the region’s proximity to international borders put...

Posted on June 30, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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The isolated mountain village of Bediani, home to a community of 18 former street children, is a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Tbilisi along poorly maintained, winding roads. It’s an...

Posted on June 19, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Muskie fellow Ruslan Karabukaev and several of his MBA classmates at the Georgia Institute of Technology  spent their winter break volunteering in New...

Posted on May 30, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Over 400,000 young people participate in Model United Nations simulations each year, but students in Turkmenistan weren’t among them—until Global Undergraduate Exchange (Global UGRAD...

Posted on May 7, 2009 - in Higher Education Development, Education
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In the tradition of encouraging and supporting US scholars and students in the field of Eastern European and Eurasia studies, IREX has partnered with Bennett College for Women, one of only two...

Posted on April 24, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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Muskie fellow Margarita Aksyonova with HIV actvist, Patricia Kelly

“No matter how many movies or news stories you’ve watched about [people living with HIV/AIDS], it’s totally different from actually dealing with them on [a daily basis].

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Muskie fellow Anna Andrianova

Youth who are incarcerated are more likely to be incarcerated as adults.*

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When she returned to Bangladesh after completing six weeks of professional development in the United States with the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA), Musammat Badrunesha was...