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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Video Available
21 January 2009The Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, held at Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel on Monday, Jan. 19, is now available for viewing via streaming video. The event featured guest speaker Mary Easter, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Dance and the Performing Arts, emerita, as well as musical performances by the Northfield Youth Concert Choir and Jamaal Magee ’10 (Chicago). The event was co-sponsored by the Northfield Human Rights Commission, which presented its 2009 Human Rights Award to Cherif Keita, professor of French and Francophone studies, as part of the evening’s celebration.
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Grow Analyzes 2009 Challenges on MPR’s “Midday”
29 December 2008Roy Grow, the Frank B. Kellogg Professor of International Relations, recently appeared on Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midday With Gary Eichten” program. The duo discussed and dissected the myriad of challenges facing the United States and its President-Elect, Barack Obama. You can listen to the archived show on the MPR website.
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Schier Postulates Time Minnesota Will Be One Senator Shy
29 December 2008Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, spoke with the Star Tribune about the time that Minnesota may go with only one U.S. Senator as the recount between Republican incumbant Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken drags into January. “I think it matters more in January ’09 more than it would in [another] year because the Democratic Congress is planning on getting more active.” he said. “There will be all sorts of major initiatives. It’s an unusually consequential [moment] for Minnesota.” The entire article is available on the Star Tribune website.
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Arabic Online Module Funding to Khazaal
11 August 2008Natalie Khazaal, visiting professor of Arabic, is a subawardee of a U.S. Department of Education grant awarded to the UCLA International Institute. UCLA’s project “Listen and Learn: Teaching Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in America’s Middle and High Schools” is one of eleven projects receiving funds in 2008 from the USDE’s International Research and Studies Program. Khazaal will develop on-line Arabic Lebanese dialect modules.
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Vrtis Awarded Fellowship for Book Research
15 May 2008George Vrtis, professor of environmental and technological studies and history, was awarded a summer 2008 residential research fellowship ($1,500 travel grant) from the St. Louis Mercantile Library in St. Louis to support research on his book manuscript, “Refashioning the Mountains: An Environmental History of the Colorado Front Range, 1700-1900.”
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