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 Innovative Curriculum Design Workshop in Chile:
Over the summer, LASPAU continued its work to improve teaching and learning in higher education. From August 19-26, 2009, two training workshops were held at the School of Engineering at the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (UCSC) in Chile. The workshops were led by Dr. Doris R. Brodeur of MIT, whose work focuses on the assessment of learning outcomes, curriculum evaluation, and academic improvement. 
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 LASPAU announces launch of the Ruperti Scholarship Program:
Wilmer Ruperti, the Venezuelan-born Chairman and CEO of Maroil Trading, recently announced the first recipients of the newly created Ruperti Scholarship Program during an awards ceremony at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay,Massachusetts. The first Ruperti Scholars, Young Ryou and Andrés Blaise Jované-Flynn, are both from Panama and entering their second year of studies at the Academy. |
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 LASPAU Staff Represent Organization at NAFSA Annual Conference:
Three LASPAU staff members attended the NAFSA 2009 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, which took place May 25-29, 2009. As part of the week-long conference, Program Coordinator Amy Whitish was a presenter on a session entitled “Your Campus Needs More Latin American Students” along with María Mercedes Salmon from the Fulbright Commission in Ecuador (pictured left with Amy), Fanny del Rio from the Fulbright Commission in Uruguay, and Hodgie Bricke from the University of Kansas. LASPAU’s Associate Director for Programs Craig Hastings chaired a session entitled “Attract Fulbright Grantees from Outside Major Cities in Colombia and Mexico” along with Ann Mason from the Fulbright Commission in Colombia and Maggie Hug from COMEXUS. |
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 Representatives from Chilean Universities Participate in MECESUP Sponsored Curriculum Innovation Workshop:
From April 13-22, 2009, 20 representatives of 15 public universities in Chile participated in the Program on Curricular Innovation, which was organized by LASPAU through its Initiative for the Development of Academic Innovation (IDIA). The Program, which was funded by MECESUP, a higher education initiative of the Chilean government, took place on the campuses of Harvard University and MIT and included interactive sessions on student-centered teaching, curricular reform, trends in higher education in the United States and throughout the world, student mobility, systems of accreditation, outcomes measurement and quality assurance, and the experiences of teaching and learning centers at U.S. universities. |
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Former Fulbright Grantee Publishes Second Novel:
Giovanna Rivero, a Fulbright Faculty Development alumnus from Bolivia who received her master’s degree in Spanish language and literature from the Univ. of Florida in December 2008, published her second novel, Tukzon, historias colaterales (Grupo Editorial La Hoguera), in July of that year. The book, whose title alludes to the challenges of language structure through its spelling of the word Tucson, is a novel made up of 14 individual stories with a unifying theme. In Rivero’s own words, the book is “a hybrid novel about the immigration process in which the two women protagonists cross the desert looking to fulfill their dreams, but surprises are waiting for them everywhere. Readers can find science fiction, drama, and a good mood in Tukzon."
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E.One.Caribbean Project: Linking non-governmental organizations in the Caribbean with intellectual, financial, human resources of the region and its diaspora
Interim Report on the Border Ozone Reduction and Air Quality Improvement Program
