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Hundreds of Georgian Students Initiate Model UN August 7, 2008 by Giorgi Tskhekhani and Nicole Mechem After participating in a Model United Nations project as an exchange student in the United States, Georgian UGRAD 2006 alumnus Giorgi Tskhekhani knew it was something that could be of great value if he could replicate the project in his home country. With dedication and assistance through the ECA Alumni Small Grants program and the support of United Nations Association of Georgia, Giorgi was recently able to do so, giving an opportunity to more than 230 students from 10 Georgian universities.	US Students Blog Exchange Trip to Turkmenistan July 29, 2008 Two Hatboro-Horsham High School students, Anna Rubenstein and Kenny Pallis, along with the school’s Instructional Technology Specialist James Shield, were chosen to travel to Turkmenistan this summer as part of an exchange funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State and administered by IREX.
International Educators Experience Community-Based Learning Through Partnerships with DC-Area Museums June 25, 2008 by Amira Maaty After participating in a semester-long, in-service teacher training program at various US universities, a group of international teachers selected to participate in the International Leadership in Education Program (ILEP) concluded their program in Washington, DC, where they received additional training on teacher leadership and how their indiviudal professional development experiences could be transformed and applied in their classrooms, schools, and communities back home.	Moldovan Graduate and Undergraduate Students Pursue Journalism in US May 31, 2008 by Michael Robie and Marisa Itte Educational Fellowships in the United States provide opportunities for advancement at multiple levels of career studies. A recent example is that of two Moldovan fellows, graduate student Nadine Gogu and undergraduate student Mariana Oprea, who both pursued journalism at different stages of their lives and for different reasons, but both gaining valuable experience that would help them upon their return home.
Political Stalemates: US Scholars Inform Policy Discussion on Eurasia’s Frozen Conflicts May 20, 2008 The terms “frozen conflicts” and “unrecognized states” have commonly been used by analysts and researchers when referring to the current ethnic and separatist disputes in Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have continued over the course of many years—and in some cases over a decade—without resolution. In Eurasia alone, there are currently four such “frozen conflicts” resulting from the Soviet legacy: Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), and Nargorno-Karabakh (Armenia, Azerbaijan).	Special Olympics Internship Enhances Perspectives of Kazakh Grad Student May 5, 2008 When Kazakh graduate student Elmira Zhekeyeva received her Muskie fellowship to study at the University of Mississippi, she wanted not just to get her master’s in education, but to place an emphasis on special education. Her experience as a student and as an intern at the Special Olympics has given her fresh ideas and already helped her assist with relevant initiatives back in Kazakhstan.
Undergrad Works to Bring Renewable Energy Technology Home to Ukraine April 23, 2008 In Windmill Park in the foothills of Northern Arizona, 19-year-old Anna Zinenko is investigating the potential market and benefits for wind energy. She hopes the efforts undertaken on these wind farms will produce transferrable results that can be utilized in her home country of Ukraine. Though only an undergraduate student, she is considered a peer among the researchers and professors from Northern Arizona University’s Sustainable Energy Solutions (SES).	Indonesian Teacher Passes New Skills to Thousands of Peers March 28, 2008 Within six months of completing an intensive, in-service teacher training program in the United States, Indonesian English Teacher Yuna Kadarisman set out to share her experience and new teaching methodologies with hundreds of her peers in the South Sulawesi province of Indonesia, an area with limited professional development opportunities and resources for teachers.
Moot Court Competition Prepares Ukraine’s Future Lawyers March 25, 2008 Increasing the preparedness of Ukrainian law students to enter the country’s legal system is a cornerstone of the Students’ League of the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) at the Economics and Law Faculty at Donetsk National University in Ukraine. The Students’ League has initiated projects to allow law students from all over Ukraine to network among their future legal peers, share knowledge, and develop their professional capacity. Targeted for reform by authorities, the Ukrainian legal system will benefit from an influx of trained and highly competent new lawyers.	Russian Physician Pioneers Telemedical Practices March 12, 2008 Russian physician Nikolay Matveev’s experience at Harvard University, as part of the Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program (Muskie), has enabled him to make powerful professional impact since returning to Moscow. Through his work at the Moscow Research Institute for Pediatrics and Children’s Surgery he has innovated the use of telemedicine in treating children in the far regions of Russia.