Languages and Cultures
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected as president of Liberia and any African country, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Indiana University on Saturday (May 3 ), in recognition of her efforts to promote peace, justice and democracy, and of the close relations between her country and IU.
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Documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen will visit Indiana University and speak Wednesday (March 19) at a screening of her new documentary Sisters of the Good Death.
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About 80 faculty members at Indiana University's Bloomington campus have research or professional interests in the Middle East. They can be found from the Kelley School of Business to the Jacobs School of Music and in many specialized areas as well, such as designing national health care plans and government administration. The new director of IU's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program hopes to involve as many of them as possible in the program's future activities.
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Indiana University and its East Asian Studies Center, opened the Chinese Pedagogy Institute on Sunday to 15 prospective and practicing high school teachers of Chinese. Jennifer Liu, East Asian languages and cultures professor, and Chinese language coordinator at IU, is leading the course.
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Abigail Scott, a student at Iindiana University Bloomington, is one of 20 college students nationwide selected to receive the Beinecke Scholarship.
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Two initiatives this week by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University demonstrate that its faculty and students see themselves playing an important role in India's future. Kelley School Dean Daniel C. Smith will be visiting government ministers and senior administrators at companies and universities across India during a seven-day trip there. M.A. Venkataramanan, chair of the undergraduate program, also will be leading a group of about 60 sophomore honors students there.
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