http://newscenter.iupui.edu/ News about International from Newscenter en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:48:46 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5966/Wine-to-Water-charity-founder-Doc-Hendley-to-speak-at-IUPUI-on-April-1 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5966/Wine-to-Water-charity-founder-Doc-Hendley-to-speak-at-IUPUI-on-April-1 Doc Hendley, founder of the charitable organization Wine to Water, will speak at IUPUI on April 1, kicking off Earth Month activities on campus. The presentation is also part of the Efroymson Lectures on International Art, Culture and Heritage and a Greening IUPUI grant. The event is free and open to the public. Hendley came up with the idea for Wine to Water, which provides clean water and sanitation to people around the world, while bartending and playing music in 2003 in nightclubs around Raleigh, N.C. Since then, his organization has transformed lives in Sudan, India, Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, South Africa, Kenya and Haiti. Hendley was one of CNN’s 2009 Heroes. An IU School of Physical Education and Tourism Management alumni and donor reception will take place at 5 p.m. in Campus Center Theater, on the lower level of the center, 420 University Blvd. Hendley will then speak in the theater from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. A book signing for “Wine to Water” will follow. The school is presenting the Efroymson Lectures on International Art, Culture and Heritage, and two of its faculty, Amanda Cecil and Susie Benko, received the Greening IUPUI grant for presentations regarding green approaches to meetings and events. Registration is required only if you plan to attend the reception preceding the presentation, or if you wish to receive one of the 50 free books. Guests may register for the reception at alumni.iupui.edu. Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_220px-docwater.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_220px-docwater.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5963/First-Susan-Buck-Sutton-award-recipients http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5963/First-Susan-Buck-Sutton-award-recipients The IUPUI Office of International Affairs has announced the first two recipients of its new annual Susan Buck Sutton award. The award is presented to a campus faculty member and a staff member who made significant contributions to the study abroad program at IUPUI. Jennifer Custer, program manager for the ENLACE project in the Department of Family Medicine at the IU School of Medicine, and Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis, an IU School of Physical Education and Tourism Management faculty member, were presented with their awards at the IUPUI International Festival. The award is named in honor of Susan Buck Sutton, the first associate vice chancellor for international affairs at IUPUI. Sutton, senior advisor for Internationalization at Bryn Mawr College, sent a message that was read at the ceremony. “Study abroad is one of the most powerful modes for developing the international skills, knowledge, and networks needed for our globalizing world… The number of IUPUI students studying abroad has grown year after year after year. This remarkable development is the direct result of the energy, commitment, and creativity shown by IUPUI staff and faculty in creating new and alternative forms of study abroad, forms that matched the distinctive nature of IUPUI's student body, opening up opportunities never available to them before…It is an honor to have my name associated with the individuals who will be receiving these awards today.” Selection of award recipients is based on efforts to promote a campus climate where students are encouraged to study abroad and new programs are developed and supported. Custer was described as a driving force behind the expansion of study abroad opportunities for medical students in Honduras, El Salvador, and China. Custer is currently collaborating with others in her school to develop a study abroad medical service learning opportunity for students to care for special needs children in Chinese orphanages. The School of Medicine will launch this program later this year. Hji-Avgoustis was cited for developing study abroad programs in Germany, Kenya, and the Mediterranean and being a campus leader and advocate for international education. From providing a chance to learn about the cruise industry while at sea, to assisting in the development of the High Altitude Training Center in Kenya as a tourist attraction, these international programs were described as offering students unique opportunities and exceptional preparation for future roles in the global tourism industry and as global citizens.   Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_sutton award winners00.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_sutton award winners00.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5959/Last-Lecture-to-focus-on-global-citizenship http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5959/Last-Lecture-to-focus-on-global-citizenship H. Öner Yurtseven, Dean Emeritus of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, will focus on global citizenship when he delivers the Last Lecture, Friday, March 22, in the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Boulevard. Yurtseven’s lecture, “A Wandering Migrant or a Global Citizen? – The Continuing Journey of an Engineering and Technology Educator,” will be presented at 2 p.m. in the Campus Center Theater, located on the Campus Center’s lower level. A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Those planning to attend the event are asked to RSVP here. The Last Lecture Series, which began in 2009, offers the university community the opportunity to hear reflection on life’s lessons and meaning from a current or retired IUPUI colleague of exceptional merit. The event is sponsored by the IUPUI Senior Academy, the IUPUI administration, and the IU Foundation. Yurstseven will explore the role that universities play in in global citizenship and how IUPUI can encourage students, faculty, staff, alumni, business and industry, and the community to engage in global citizenship. He will also share his personal global citizenship experiences that include completing his graduate work in the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar, returning to his home country of Turkey, where he became a faculty member at the Middle East Technical Institute University and then returning to the U.S. in 1977 to avoid an unstable political climate. Beginning his new academic career at IUPUI in 1977 as a visiting professor in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Yurtseven went on to serve as division chairman, assistant dean, associate dean and dean, retiring in 2010 after 33 years of service.   Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_200_yurtseven0.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_200_yurtseven0.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5945/IUPUI-led-expedition-seeks-source-of-thousandyearold-coins-in-Aboriginal-Australia http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5945/IUPUI-led-expedition-seeks-source-of-thousandyearold-coins-in-Aboriginal-Australia Like a detective working a cold case, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis anthropologist hopes to unravel the mystery of how a handful of coins, some dating back more than 1,000 years, wound up on a remote beach along Australia’s northern coastline. Armed with a grant from the Australian Geographic Society, Ian McIntosh will lead an expedition in July to the long-abandoned Wessel Islands where the coins were found. The ancient copper coins have little monetary value, but in archaeological terms they are priceless, McIntosh said. The coins may even touch upon the arrival of Europeans in Australia, as British explorer James Cook is credited with being the first European to have encountered the country’s eastern coastline in 1770. The coins raise the possibility of shipwrecks that may have occurred along an early maritime trading route and bring to mind the ancient trading network that linked East Africa, Arabia, India and the Spice Islands over 1,000 years ago. Aboriginal folklore also speaks of a hidden cave near where the coins were found that is filled with doubloons and weaponry of an ancient era, McIntosh said. In any case, McIntosh begins his quest for answers with a nearly 70-year-old map where X marks the spot but few other clues about the coins that now reside in a box in the back of a museum in Sydney, because people don’t know what to make of them, he said. McIntosh, who is Australian, will be returning to the area where he lived for several years while working on his Ph.D. Mcintosh is an adjunct anthropology faculty member in the IU School of Liberal Arts. The coins were found in 1944. Maurie Isenberg, an Australian soldier assigned to a forward radar station at Jensen Bay on the Wessel Islands, spotted several coins in the sand while fishing in his spare time one day. Having little interest in coins at the time, he placed them in an airtight tin, where they remained until 1979, when he sent the coins off to have them identified. Shortly after finding the coins, Isenberg drew an X on a map of the area that had been drawn by another soldier. McIntosh now possesses that map. Four of the coins were identified as Dutch East India Company coins, with one dating back to 1690. The other five coins, dating from the 900s to 1300s, were African coins from the once flourishing Kilwa Sultanate, now a World Heritage ruin south of Zanzibar in Tanzania. The copper coins, the first to be produced in sub-Saharan Africa, were never in use beyond the immediate locality of East Africa, and only one has ever been found elsewhere, in Oman. How and why do five Kilwa coins find their way to the Australian Outback? McIntosh said he believes an archaeological site survey, which has never been done, and an excavation will begin to answer those questions. In partnership with the senior Aboriginal custodians for the Wessel Islands, McIntosh’s team, composed of Australians and Americans, will include a historian, anthropologist, archaeologist and geomorphologist, as well as Aboriginal rangers. They will survey the site where the coins were found, with a view to applying for an excavation permit from the relevant heritage authorities and planning the logistics of the excavation. The initial work to be done includes site surveys, mapping, recording, soil testing and coastal erosion analysis. There are so many unanswered questions regarding to the African coins' discovery, McIntosh said. “Multiple theses have been put forward by noted scholars, and the major goal is to piece together more of the puzzle. Is a shipwreck involved? Are there more coins? All options are on the table, but only the proposed expedition can help us answer some of these perplexing questions.”   Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_photo000.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_photo000.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5917/Forgiveness-Forum-provides-wakeup-call http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5917/Forgiveness-Forum-provides-wakeup-call A “Forgiveness Forum” initiated to explore approaches to achieving peace and reconciliation on the global stage was a successful “wake-up” call, said a community leader who joined more than 75 IUPUI international students, faculty, community advocates and representatives from faith and civic organizations. The daylong workshop on “forgiveness in international perspective” took place Feb. 2 at the Center for Interfaith Cooperation, 1100 W. 42nd St. in Indianapolis. Two survivors of mass genocide who are advocates of “unilateral forgiveness” participated in the forum. Ian McIntosh, director of international partnerships in the Office of International Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, received a $2,000 grant from the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative of the United States Institute of Peace to hold the forum. McIntosh organized the forum in collaboration with the Amahoro Project for Forgiveness and Reconciliation and the Center for Interfaith Cooperation, and assisted by K.P. Singh, representing the Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis. Singh credited the success of the event to the compelling testimony of Eva Mozes Kor, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, and Kizito Kalima, a Rwandan genocide survivor, and the presence and participation by a deeply engaged multicultural, multifaith and multigenerational audience. “It was especially encouraging to see young students from high schools and colleges,” Singh said. “This was a reminder to the adults in the audience that forgiveness, compassion, understanding, tolerance, respect, human dignity, universal assurance and safeguarding of sacred rights; search for peaceful alternatives; and a robust, grass-roots and mature course of action is critical to our future, at this time of great turmoil. Past and ongoing human suffering continues in places around the world where we witness faiths, cultures, communities and nations at war with themselves and others.” A second event, a public lecture at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, took place Feb. 5. Kalima and McIntosh, who is also an adjunct professor of anthropology and associate director of the Confucius Institute, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of using unilateral forgiveness to achieve long-term peace in a case study from Rwanda.       Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_cimg4437.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_cimg4437.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5885/US-Institute-of-Peace-grant-will-fund-international-forgiveness-workshop-lecture-at-IUPUI http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5885/US-Institute-of-Peace-grant-will-fund-international-forgiveness-workshop-lecture-at-IUPUI The director of international partnerships at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will use a $2,000 grant from the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative of the United States Institute of Peace to explore a novel approach to achieving peace and reconciliation on the global stage. Ian McIntosh said a daylong workshop on “forgiveness in international perspective” will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Center for Interfaith Cooperation, 1100 W. 42nd St. in Indianapolis. Two survivors of mass genocide who are also advocates of “unilateral forgiveness” will lead sessions about this approach. The advocates are Kizito Kalima, a Rwandan genocide survivor, and Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor best known for her documentary film, “Forgiving Dr. Mengele.” Both live in Indiana and participated in a 2011 event supported by the Office of International Affairs in Indianapolis commemorating the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. A public lecture also will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 5. at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Kalima and McIntosh, who is also an adjunct professor of anthropology and associate director of the Confucius Institute, will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using unilateral forgiveness to achieve long-term peace in a case study from Rwanda. “The workshop and lecture will be inspirational for our campus and community, especially for international students and the African Diaspora,” McIntosh said. The IUPUI African Student Association will co-sponsor the event. “USIP is pleased to support organizations like IUPUI and their contribution to the national conversation around international conflict -- and methods for resolving those conflicts nonviolently,” said Jim Marshall, president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The U. S. Institute of Peace is the independent, nonpartisan conflict management center created by Congress to prevent and mitigate international conflict without resorting to violence. The institute works to save lives, increase the government’s ability to deal with conflicts before they escalate, reduce government costs and enhance national security. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Baghdad, Iraq, and Kabul, Afghanistan. As part of its congressional mandate, the U.S. Institute of Peace devotes a portion of its budget to support organizations that will advance the field of conflict management by developing new techniques, establishing best practices and professionalizing the field through education and training. The Public Education for Peacebuilding Support is a program of the U.S. Institute of Peace administered by the Institute of International Education. For more information on the workshop and lecture, contact McIntosh at imcintos@iupui.edu or 317 274-3776.   Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5871/New-assistant-dean-in-IU-School-of-Dentistry-will-direct-schools-International-Dental-Program http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5871/New-assistant-dean-in-IU-School-of-Dentistry-will-direct-schools-International-Dental-Program Melanie R. Peterson, a former longtime University of Louisville professor and administrator who joined the Indiana University School of Dentistry faculty in 2011 as director of hospital dentistry and the general practice residency, has been appointed the dental school’s assistant dean for admissions and students affairs, pending approval of the Trustees of Indiana University. She has also been named director of an advanced-standing degree program for international dentists. In addition to overseeing student admissions and managing an office that serves a dental and allied dental student population of more than 500, Peterson will develop, implement and manage a new International Dental Program designed for foreign-educated dentists who wish to become licensed to practice in the United States. Dental practitioners in the U.S. must hold a dental degree earned from a U.S. dental school. IU’s advanced dental degree program for international students, like others around the country, will be tailored to individual student progress but will typically reduce the length of training from the four years required in the traditional Doctor of Dental Surgery degree program to two years for students who have already trained as dentists abroad. IU School of Dentistry joins about two dozen other U.S. and Canadian dental schools that have organized similar programs and are participating in the American Dental Education Association’s Centralized Application for Advanced Placement for International Dentists. Up to 12 dentists will be accepted into IU's inaugural International Dental Program, scheduled to begin July 1, 2013, and it is anticipated that 24 applicants will be accepted annually thereafter. The traditional DDS degree program accepts about 100 students annually. The International Dental Program admissions process will operate parallel to the admissions process for the traditional program to ensure standards of the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation are met. As program director, Peterson will report to Christianne Guba, associate dean for academic affairs. “Dr. Peterson has had extensive involvement with students and dental residents in a variety of academic capacities during her career, and she is exceptionally well qualified for both the assistant deanship for student affairs and the IDP directorship,” Guba said. “She brings an informed perspective to these positions with regard to managing career opportunities for students as they graduate, an increasingly important issue in a changing health care environment.” Peterson holds dental and MBA degrees and a certificate in health professions education from the University of Louisville, and she completed a general practice residency at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Louisville. She served in the public health sector for 14 years before joining the University of Louisville School of Dentistry faculty as director of the advanced education in general dentistry program in 1995. In 1999 she was appointed associate dean for clinical affairs, a position that was expanded three years later to include postdoctoral education. At the University of Louisville, she piloted a comprehensive care model for dental students that served as a precursor for the school’s current clinical system. She also conducted a dental provider workforce analysis for the Kentucky Department of Health and Human Services. She is a past chair of the American Dental Education Association Section on Clinic Administration and an alumna of the association's Leadership Institute and Drexel University College of Medicine’s Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine for Women program. She was the American Dental Education Association’s recipient of the William J. Gies Foundation Education Fellowship in 2006.   Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_peterson, melanie 2012.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_peterson, melanie 2012.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5867/IUPUI-establishes-Sutton-award-to-recognize-contributions-to-study-abroad-program http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5867/IUPUI-establishes-Sutton-award-to-recognize-contributions-to-study-abroad-program In honor of Susan Buck Sutton, the first associate vice chancellor for international affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the Office of International Affairs will present a new annual award to a staff member and a faculty member who have made significant contributions to the study abroad program at IUPUI. The Office of International Affairs invites nominations for the Susan Buck Sutton Award. Recipients of the award will be honored at the IUPUI International Festival held in February each year. “Susan’s contributions to international education and its definition of internationalization, ‘the wise, informed, and responsible engagement of students, faculty, staff, and the institution itself in the global networks that shape us all,’ has have inspired me over the years,” said Gil Latz, associate vice chancellor for international affairs at IUPUI. “Susan Sutton played a vital role in advancing IUPUI’s study abroad program,” said Stephanie Leslie, IUPUI director of study abroad. “Susan always understood that IUPUI students juggle a variety of competing commitments. Together we worked with schools and departments to develop a variety of study abroad programs that fit the needs of IUPUI students and their curricula.” All IUPUI faculty and staff are eligible for nomination. Recipients will be selected based on their efforts to promote a campus climate where students are encouraged to study abroad and new programs are developed and supported. The winners of this award should demonstrate their merit through a commitment to international education which is over and above their primary duties at IU. An online form has been established for nominations. Nominations will be accepted through Jan.23. Send questions about the award to slleslie@iupui.edu. Office of International Affairs staff and faculty involved in study abroad programs at IUPUI will review the nominations and determine the recipients. Sutton’s career at IUPUI, which spanned more than 30 years., was marked by excellence. Sutton, chancellor’s professor of anthropology in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, was appointed the associate dean for international affairs in 2003 and in 2007 was named associate vice chancellor for IUPUI and associate vice president for the IU system. Sutton played a key role in refining and developing policies affecting every aspect of campus internationalization. Sutton’s leadership in these areas led to IUPUI being recognized in 2009 with the Institute for International Education’s Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Partnerships and in 2011 with the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization.   Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_susan buck sutton for chronicle0.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_susan buck sutton for chronicle0.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5854/Qatar-author-Diana-Untermeyer-to-discuss-her-book-at-IUPUI http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5854/Qatar-author-Diana-Untermeyer-to-discuss-her-book-at-IUPUI Diana Untermeyer will visit Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis on Thursday, Nov. 15, to speak about her experiences living in Qatar from 2004 to 2007 as the wife of the U.S. ambassador, which she captured in her 2011 book “Qatar: Sand, Sea and Sky.” The event is free and open to the public. It will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 2132 in the Education/Social Work building, 902 W. New York St. A publisher’s description of the book describes it as an overview of the country and its journey into modernity while it preserves the duality of its culture as a desert by the sea. It provides a portrait of this moderate Muslim country and the way it attempts to become modern and engaged with the world without losing its heritage. In Qatar, Untermeyer was active with women’s and children’s programs and in the conservation, arts and health communities. She participated in numerous equestrian sports and won top rider for the 2006-07 endurance season.   Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_qatar_cvr-for-web.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_qatar_cvr-for-web.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5851/Michael-Kowolik-to-lead-IU-School-of-Dentistrys-expanded-internationalization-efforts http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5851/Michael-Kowolik-to-lead-IU-School-of-Dentistrys-expanded-internationalization-efforts IU School of Dentistry Dean John Williams has turned to a faculty member with a diverse international background to lead the school’s expanded internationalization efforts. Williams said Michael Kowolik, associate dean for graduate education, will lead those efforts from the recently renamed Office of Graduate Education and Global Engagement. The office was formerly named the Office of Graduate Education. “Indiana University is actively extending the principles and practice of internationalization on several fronts,” Williams said. “It is appropriate that the dental school align itself more formally with the university in its vision and mission regarding a commitment to global education and scholarly activity.” Having an office with this designated responsibility gives a positive signal to potential external partners that the dental school has a serious commitment in the global arena, Williams said. Kowolik grew up in England and Scotland, where he earned dental and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He worked often with colleagues in Europe as well as the U.S. for more than a decade. After he joined the IU dental school’s full-time faculty in the Department of Periodontics and Allied Dental Programs in 1998, he began developing research projects in Latin America.He has served as associate dean since 2007. Expansion of the dental school’s international efforts will begin with building on existing partnerships, Kowolik said. Those partnerships include two that are designated as Strategic Partners at IU and IUPUI: Moi University and AMPATH partnership in Kenya, and Sun Yat-Sen University in China. Several dental faculty and departments have well-established relationships through formal or informal collaborations with colleagues and schools around the world, Kowolik said. The school also has an existing collaboration in Japan and is exploring the possibility of providing training to some junior dental faculty at King Saud University and developing a joint Ph.D. program between the IU School of Dentistry and King Saud University, the largest higher education center in Saudi Arabia. “The world, as they say, has become a small place,” Kowolik said. “Technology allows us to correspond with people on the other side of world with great ease and regularity. We need to do that. We need to learn from them. We can learn from one another. “This effort is about establishing firm, deep and prospectively long-term relationships where there is an exchange of ideas, scholarly work and research,” he said.   Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/60_sq_kowolik, michael 2009 crop0.jpg http://newscenter.iupui.edu/images/200_kowolik, michael 2009 crop0.jpg