Republished from News at IU, by Barbara Brosher When Lisa Harton started a lesson centered on “The Spider Weaver” in her first-grade classroom, tools from Indiana University helped her transport her students far beyond the book’s pages. Harton, who teaches at Spring Mill Elementary School in Indianapolis, used Windows to the World: Digital Artifacts for… Read more »
Indiana University is well known for its Russian and East European Studies program, which is what drew Jeta Loshaj to Indiana from her home country of Kosovo. The program is offered by the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute in the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. “I always planned… Read more »
Minja Petrovic always wanted to be a teacher. She spent her undergraduate years in her home country of Serbia at the University of Kragujevac School of Education. After spending a semester in Hungary as an exchange student, her path shifted, eventually leading her to the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Petrovic… Read more »
The IU Hamilton Lugar School will convene scholars and experts for a panel discussion on how activists are fighting for reproductive justice around the world. On the Front Lines: Activist Movements for Reproductive Justice is the latest event in the Global Perspectives on Reproductive Justice series. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 12… Read more »
As an IU undergraduate, Dakotah Meadows started out as an English major. Her love for literature led her to discover South Korean short stories and add a second major in East Asian Languages and Cultures. Meadows is now pursuing an MA in East Asian Studies with a focus on Korea at the IU Hamilton Lugar… Read more »
Callie Rhoades says a research opportunity at the IU Institute for Korean Studies helped her go from studying Korea to pursuing a Master’s degree there. As an undergraduate, she took advantage of the George Washington-Indiana University (GW-IU) Undergraduate Research Exchange Program, and is now pursuing a Master’s in Korean Studies at Ewha Womans University in… Read more »
Indiana University (IU) and Hamilton Lugar School students gained a realistic experience of how the European Union operates by competing in the 2023 Midwest Model EU (MMEU) Conference March 23-25. The event, hosted by the Hamilton Lugar School Institute for European Studies (EURO), was attended by more than 120 students across the country, including IU… Read more »
The Brazilian indigenous population is one of the most vulnerable populations globally. Through research at Indiana University, Alicia Lorena Gonzalez aims to influence policymakers who can protect indigenous communities by underscoring the importance of land sovereignty. “Brazilian indigenous populations have no automatic land sovereignty. The process for land to be approved by the state… Read more »
Jessica Storey-Nagy met her husband, who is Hungarian, while living in Denver. She said her first trip to Hungary to meet his family influenced her decision to pursue an education in Hungarian Studies. She ultimately chose the Central Eurasian Studies M.A. and Ph.D. programs at the Indiana University (IU) Hamilton Lugar School of Global and… Read more »
What does Cassidy Phillips, a second-year student at the IU Hamilton Lugar School, recommend to students attending the 8th annual America’s Role in the World conference (ARW8) for the first time? “Pack a quiet snack that you can bust out. Don’t be like us… don’t pack chips!” Phillips says students shouldn’t be intimidated by the… Read more »
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