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Chief Justice Roberts and Sandra Day O'Connor meet with Ukrainian Constitutional Court Judges
02/09/12
In November 2011, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor met with Judges Mariia Markush, Petro Stetsiuk, and Serhii Vdovichenko, from the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, during their trip to Washington, D.C. on the Open World Program. The Open Word Program is a U.S. congressionally-funded initiative whose Rule of Law component seeks to strengthen relationships between the U.S. judiciary and the judiciaries of Ukraine, Russia, and other Eurasian countries. American Councils for International Education oversees logistics for the Open World Program.
American Councils Holds Talks with Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Education and Senior Higher Education Delegation
02/06/12
From December 9-10, 2011, Dr. Dan Davidson, President of American Councils for International Education, met with Yevgen Sulima, the Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Youth, and Sports, to discuss the role of standardized testing in university admissions in Ukraine. First Deputy Sulima and a delegation of Ukrainian government officials visited the American Councils Washington, D.C. office during a U.S. State Department-funded International Visitor Leadership Program trip to the U.S.
Milner and Durov named start-ups that have received private funding
01/30/12
In early December, the founder of investment group DST Yuri Milner and founder of the social network VKontakte Pavel Durov announced the launch of the Start Fellows project to support young Russian developers.
NSF Director and Russian Science Minister Sign Historic Agreement for Bilateral Collaboration
01/30/12
Subra Suresh and Andrei Fursenko establish cooperative framework with which to support U.S. and Russian scientists and engineers.
EURECA Launch Video Interviews
01/30/12
Watch video interviews with key US and Russian program stakeholders from the EURECA Launch Conference organized and launched by American Councils in Washington, DC on October 2010.
"Expert RA" and the Russian Venture Company have developed value indices of start-ups in Russia
01/30/12
Rating agency “Expert RA” is conducting research for Russian Venture Company to evaluate the average cost of innovative start-ups in Russia. According to the results of the 1st stage of the research, the average cost of launching innovative start-up in April-June 2011 is estimated at 53 million rubles (1.7 million dollars).
International Delegation of Professors Convenes in Kansas For Program Orientation
01/30/12
LAWRENCE, KS, January 9-11, 2012 - Forty-two university faculty from fourteen countries in Eurasia and Southeastern Europe met with their U.S. colleagues at the University of Kansas (KU) to mark the beginning of the 2012 Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP). Hosted by KU's Office of International Programs, the orientation familiarized the JFDP fellows with U.S. higher education and American culture, in preparation for spending a semester at a U.S. university.
FLEX Alumni Facilitate Exchange Between Orphans and Elderly
01/23/12
In December 2011, four alumni of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program, administered by American Councils for International Education, brought young orphans and elderly people together in an act of American-style volunteerism. For three days, the alumni met with developmentally disabled orphans from Moscow's Boarding School No. 8 to make small gifts and practice songs, which they then presented to residents of an elderly care home. By organizing more than 500 volunteer events in 2011 alone, FLEX program alumni are changing the perception that community-based volunteerism is rare in Russia. The Moscow Times highlighted this volunteer project as a part of a news series on the FLEX program.
Kung fu - and a life lesson for High School's Chinese students
01/18/12
Translated literally from Chinese to English, kung fu means skill acquired through hard work.
That's a fitting description for presentations that Chinese martial arts teacher Lucas Geller recently gave to Niskayuna High School Chinese classes earlier this month.
Building Cultural Bridges: Arabic Teacher Kamel Gadallah
01/18/12
“A-Salamu ali-kum,” says Kamel Gadallah to each student entering his classroom at the Upper School. The traditional greeting of “Peace unto you,” this disarming, generous offer will be the first of many Gadallah extends to his students during the Arabic 2 class.