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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...

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The majority of Hasnain Imam’s students in Howrah, India, near Kolkata, are from economically disadvantaged families; many of their parents are migrant laborers who never entered a...

Posted on September 4, 2009 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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Located only 30km from the Chinese border, the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law (KSAEL) attracts many Chinese students pursuing higher education abroad.

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Online networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn have made it easier for young people to socialize and for professionals to conduct business around the world, but using web tools in the...

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...