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International Education Week: Teaching Cultural Awareness in the U.S. and Ukraine November 18, 2011 When Greg Adler, a history teacher in San Jose, California, met Ukrainian teaching fellow Natasha Kanarska through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program, he didn’t realize the extent to which this educational partnership would globalize each of their classrooms and schools.	IREX Releases 2011 Annual Report November 14, 2011 Our work today reaches and helps more people than ever before in our history. These stories highlight just a handful of the 300,000 people IREX has helped this year.
Creating a New Matrix of Gender Equality in Ukraine November 2, 2011 by Amy Bernath Muskie alumnus Maksym Klyuchar is now a Local Expert/Coordinator in Crimea for the European Union-United Nations Development Program Equal Opportunities and Women’s Rights Programme (UNDP EOWRP). The youth of Ukraine are already benefiting from Klyuchar’s experience in the US and his expertise in gender.	2011-2012 Global UGRAD Fellows Begin US Experience August 18, 2011 143 young leaders from Eurasia and Central Asia arrived to begin academic and cultural fellowships at undergraduate institutions across the United States.
How Do Public Libraries Around the World Help Migrants? August 17, 2011 by Matej Novak I recently had the opportunity to contribute to the Impatient Optimists blog, sharing my observations on the role of rural public libraries in supporting the families of migrant laborers. What follows are my thoughts as they appear on Impatient Optimists.	2011 Muskie Fellows Arrive in US August 17, 2011 A new class of Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellows arrived in the US recently to kick-off their graduate study programs. The fellowship program brings emerging leaders in key professional fields from Eurasia to the United States for one to two years of study at institutions across the United States.
American Teachers Bring the World to the Classroom August 16, 2011 One hundred American high school teachers from across the country are internationalizing their fall lesson plans after returning from global professional development visits worldwide.	Libraries: The Sustainable Telecenter July 7, 2011 by Matthew Vanderwerff IREX has been working with public access to information / telecenters for more than 15 years. In that time we’ve encountered many of the difficulties. How do the telecenters continue operation after outside funding dries up? How do you embed the telecenter into the community? As our thinking on this topic has evolved over the years, we’ve begun focusing our efforts on the one existing public institution that is owned by the local community and can provide a variety of information services: the public library.
Muskie Fellows Propose Solutions to Global Issues at Clinton Conference June 30, 2011 by Amy Bernath Two Muskie fellows recently shared project proposals to improve education and health with hundreds of colleagues at a prominent conference hosted by former President Bill Clinton. Ekaterine Danelia, a Georgian fellow studying international affairs at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, focused on giving Georgian youth global citizenship education. Yuliya Serdyuchenko, an economics fellow from Ukraine at Western Illinois University, looked at providing free polio vaccinations for children in Pakistan.	Educating Future Government Leaders of Eurasia and Central Asia June 21, 2011 More than 20 undergraduate fellows from abroad participated directly in American democracy this spring. Through part-time internships at government agencies and institutions throughout the US, these future leaders gained experience and insight into political processes that will later help them govern their home countries.