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Posted on February 8, 2010 - in International Education, Education
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Shabnam Almammadova will never forget the day she was watching television at home in Azerbaijan and saw a journalist ask an orphan about his greatest dream. The boy’s eyes welled with...

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Alumni of the 2009 TEA program returned to their home countries in November 2009 and have been steadily working to put their experience into practice in their schools and communities.

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 December 8, 2009 - in International Education, Education
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A screenshot of Elina Karakulova's blog, http://aids.kloop.kg

Over 70% of youth in Kyrgyzstan have misconceptions about HIV/AIDS, according to a recent study by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and...

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...