Dialogue of Civlizations
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Students hunt for bacteria—and amazing photos—in Chilean desert
This summer, a group of Northeastern students explored Chile’s Atacama Desert on scales large and small—from photographing the picturesque landscapes, to searching for tiny bacteria…
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Students report from ‘eye-opening and heart-filling’ dialogue in Greece
This summer, a group of 18 journalism students became an international press corps, reporting from Greece on the country’s economic disaster, the Syrian refugee crisis,…
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Northeastern senior named Schwarzman Scholar
In her senior year at Northeastern Madeline Seibert did a co-op in China, where she led an independent study documenting food losses and waste through…
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Students, faculty praise global experience at Dialogue of Civilizations Fair
“The most amazing thing I have ever done.” That’s how senior Christa Blomquist described her Dialogue of Civilizations program in Iceland. At Thursday’s annual dialogue…
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With Fulbright, Northeastern student wants to fuse education and violence prevention
Graduating senior Esther Laaninen has received a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Colombia. She says her global experiences and teaching opportunities in communities around…
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Alumna’s startup brings educational opportunities to at-risk youth in Zambia
Social entrepreneur Anna Butler’s inspiration to found modzi began while on a Dialogue of Civilizations program in Zambia and continued during a self-developed co-op there.
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The impact of climate change beyond the weather
On a Dialogue of Civilizations program to India this summer, Northeastern students saw firsthand how the nation of more than 1.2 billion people is preparing…
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Eminent historian talks Israel’s founding father
Israel Prize winner Anita Shapira explored the life and political career of David Ben-Gurion in a keynote address inaugurating the new Israel Studies Lecture series.
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No bull: students excel on journalism Dialogue in Spain
As part of a Dialogue of Civilizations program this summer, Northeastern students served as a traveling press corps in Spain where they reported on an…
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Cultural immersion through marketing
Northeastern students who participated in a summer Dialogue of Civilizations program in India learned how to promote brands in an international market.
