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SIUC International News
March 2007
- Study-abroad legislation honors Simon's legacy
- Journalism school to host east African delegation
- SIUC joins Irish Literary Collections Portal
- Yeast research may boost ethanol production
- Researcher helping plan international conference
- Engineering students win scholarships
February 2007
- Fanning (Irish Studies) facilitates re-publication of novels
- Russian musicians to perform at SIUC
- Media expert from Bangladesh to speak at SIUC
- Big Muddy Film Festival opens Feb. 22 (many international films)
- SIUC offers class in Chinese language, culture
- College of Science adds two faculty members (1 fof* Romania)
- International Festival opens Feb. 13
- Downing to deliver honors lecture on Feb. 20 (fof* England)
January 2007
- Former U.N. weapons inspector to speak at SIUC
- Archaeology project in Mexico wins NSF support
- SIUC will offer new doctoral degree program (fof* Greece)
- Abdul-Musawwir to speak at Indiana University arts festival
December 2006
- SIUC anthropologist honored for islands research
- Faculty member to head French-speaking group
- Peruvian government to honor SIUC anthropologist
- Irish SIUC student follows in father's footsteps
November 2006
- SIUC engineering professor receives academic award (fof* India)
- Internship pays dividends for SIUC student
- SIUC researcher excavates ancient Peruvian knives
October 2006
- SIUC to host United Nations adviser
- Ag expert to talk about Brazilian agriculture
- Princeton Review names SIUC a "Best Business School"
- New federal grant fuels soybean research at SIUC (fof* Morocco)
- Center for English as a Second Language growing (over 100 international students)
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September 2006
- International Film Series opens world to viewers (Iran, France/Germany, UK)
- Research may lead to solid-state refrigeration
(team members represent USA, India, Russia, Canada, Nepal and Bangladesh!) - Graduate students prepare to study in (Taiwan)
- Elsaid retires after 39 years in business college (fof* Egypt)
August 2006
- Dettmar wins major grant for seminar in (Ireland)
- Plenty to see and do in SIU tent at Du Quoin fair
August 28, International Day - Media center offers foreign language instruction
- Chugh earns Fulbright Senior Specialist honor (fof* India)
- Department attracts seven new scholars (Europe)
- Mass spectrometry expert to speak at SIUC (Switzerland)
- SIUC hurricane refugee students head home to (France)
- Vaux named interim dean at College of Liberal Arts (fof* Ireland)
- Business professor explores gender stereotyping (Sweden)
July 2006
- Miah named School of Social Work director (fof* Bangladesh)
- SIUC to host Taiwanese students for two weeks (Taiwan)
- SIUC group traveled to Africa to train journalists (Uganda,Ethiopia, Kenya)
- SIUC to offer 'Gender in Global Politics' course (worldwide)
- Dewey center to host scholar from Macedonia (Macedonia)
- China's booming aviation sector may benefit SIUC (China)
June 2006
- Field seminar takes business students to Europe
- SIUC researchers explore Mayan settlement (Guatemala)
- Project to explore conditions inside the planet (Egypt)
- Political scientist assisting Ukrainian academy (Ukraine)
- Exchange program brings French students to SIUC (France)
- Officials to explore partnerships in Taiwan, China (Taiwan, China)
- SIUC to host international glass artists June 12-14 (Czech Republic, Korea)
May 2006
- SIUC officials part of delegation headed to China (China)
- College's graduating class has international flavor (Republic of Benin, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, South Korea)
- SIUC students win prizes at research symposium (Burkino Faso)
- Doctoral student wins grant for geology research (Indian student)
- Accounting faculty, students capture honors (Fandohan-Benin, West Africa; Yang-Taiwan)
- SIUC journalism students win scholarships (Taiwan – Yeh, Yeh & Hsieh)
- SIUC team fourth in national cyber defense contest (India, Mehta)
April 2006
- Undergraduate from Italy named 1 of 25 Distinguished Scholars (Italy,Mulabdic)
- Israeli airline executive to speak at SIUC (Israel)
- SIU Faculty with International Connections Among Those Honored for Scholarship
(Debeljuk going to Germany, Gibson fof* Great Britain, Wiltowski fof* Poland) - Sanjeev Kumar named SIUC's outstanding teacher (fof* India)
- Mohammed named SIUC's Outstanding Scholar (fof* Sudan, Great Britain)
- McCubbin to travel to China as Fulbright Scholar (China)
- Notable - April 19 (Wang, fof* Korea)
March 2006
- SIUC to observe Asian Awareness Month (Asia)
- Journalists to share Middle East perspectives (Middle East)
- Irish Studies helps students reconnect with roots (Ireland)
- Notable - March 1 (Zhang, fof* China)
February 2006
- Thai university president returns for visit (Thailand)
- International Festival opens Feb. 14
- Notable - February 15 (Becker to Japan)
- Notable - February 8 (Study Illinois, Svec)
January 2006
- WSIU-FM news director shares expertise in India (India)
- International Aviation students win scholarship (Kenya, Asingo; Japan, Takeshita)
- SIUC, Taiwanese university explore partnership (Taiwan)
- Documentary explores foods, culture of Turkey (Turkey)
- SIUC researcher using coal to generate hydrogen (from Poland)
- Forestry professor provides expertise to Afghans (Afghanistan)
- Notable -January 25 (Ibrahim, Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea)
- Notable - January 18 (Mohammed, Egypt)
*fof stands for "faculty member originally from"