A group of secondary math teachers from South Korea is wrapping up a month-long visit to Indiana University's School of Education next week, the fourth consecutive year for a program bringing Korean teachers to the U.S. to learn new ways of sharing math content. Twenty-one high school and middle school teachers have explored several new methods during their weeks of workshops, including ways of using music to teach math, examining math in exercise physiology, and methods of math instruction in the New Tech High School model.

Two Indiana University School of Education professors are in Cape Town, South Africa, this week to attend the "Civitas World Congress" and continue discussions about a growing new partnership for civic education with Malawi and India. The conference is designed for both international and U.S. participants to share best practices in education for democracy programs.

A professor from the Indiana University School of Education is heading to China for a month to provide input to Chinese educators who are reforming their English instruction system. Faridah Pawan will spend a month in China observing classrooms and working with teachers of "English as a Foreign Language" (EFL), as it's called there. Pawan is an assistant professor in the department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, and she is director of TACIT -- a program to prepare more English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors.

The producer-director of a film that follows students around the globe as they work to bring attention to critical issues in their countries will be on the Indiana University campus Thursday evening, March 26, for a 7 p.m. screening of The World We Want, his award-winning documentary.

A delegation led by IU School of Education Dean Gerardo M. Gonzalez is in China this week to explore new possibilities for collaboration with Chinese universities as well as provide some professional development to Chinese higher education leaders. The delegation of five faculty members and a higher education policy studies student from China is visiting six Chinese universities.

Robert Compton, executive producer of "Two Million Minutes," a provocative documentary about global education, will show the film and participate in a discussion at Indiana University Bloomington's Willkie Auditorium on Monday, Sept. 15, at 5 p.m. Compton will discuss the film with Yong Zhao, Michigan State University Distinguished Professor and director of the U.S.-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence.

Twenty-two secondary math teachers are in the middle of a four-week mathematics education training program at the Indiana University School of Education. This is the third year the IU School of Education has won a grant from South Korea's Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to host the teachers. It's part of a program the government in Korea sponsors to send math and science teachers across the United States to learn different teaching methods.

University Dean Emeritus of the IU School of Education Donald Warren will speak at four Chinese universities during a two-week trip that will take him and his wife Beverly across the country. Appearing at the invitation of Chinese educators, Warren will speak about American higher education at Peking University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Beijing, as well as at Yunnan Nationalities University in Kunming and Nanchang Hangkong University in Jiangxi Province.

Most of the proceeds from Saturday's "Comedy Caravan" at Bear's Place in Bloomington will go toward supporting Indiana University School of Education students participating in the second International School Psychology Practicum in Guatemala this summer.

At a U.S. State Department conference Wednesday (Jan. 10) in Washington, D.C., Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert will make a presentation on the growing role major American universities are playing in this nation's public diplomacy initiatives. Herbert's remarks will come during a day-long "Private Sector Summit on Public Diplomacy" for some 150 senior corporate executives, leaders of non-profits and government officials.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will present a talk and reading at Indiana University Bloomington on Oct. 26 at 4:30 p.m. at Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. He is one of three former U.S. Poet Laureates who will visit the campus in the coming months as part of a series on the topic of "Solitude."

A scathingly funny comedy by dissident Czech playwright turned president Václav Havel is the focus of an upcoming campus-community collaboration. On Oct. 19, Indiana University's Office of International Programs and its Russian and East European Institute (REEI) will join forces with Bloomington's Cardinal Stage Company to present Havel's Obie Award-winning comedy Unveiling.

Indiana University has become the first university in North America to offer a class in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish, a language spoken throughout several Middle Eastern lands, including Iraq and Iran. Kurmanji Kurdish is spoken by nearly 15 million of the estimated 27 to 30 million Kurdish speakers worldwide.

An agreement reached today (July 10) between Indiana University and Tsinghua University in China establishes a cooperative research program that will focus on student exchanges and expanding and improving worldwide use of the Internet for scientific research. The agreement was signed at a ceremony in Beijing by IU Bloomington Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael A. McRobbie and Tsinghua Vice President Chen Jining.

Michael A. McRobbie, Indiana University interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, will lead a university delegation visiting China on July 8-19. The delegation will meet with officials at several universities in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Indiana University on July 7 announced that a record number of its international research centers have been awarded about $16 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education through its competitive Title VI program. Nine research centers at IU Bloomington have learned that they will receive Title VI funds over the next four years. They join a program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, which was awarded funding last year, to bring the total number of Title VI centers at IU to 10

A consortium including Indiana University's Center for Social Studies and International Education has received a $38 million grant to restore and improve the educational system in Afghanistan.

More than 100 students from 16 Indiana high schools will participate April 18-19 in an IU-supported program on international issues, foreign policy and the role of the United States in the world. The Center for the Study of Global Change at IU Bloomington is the statewide coordinator for Capitol Forum on America's Future.

Indiana University will use a $15 million grant to establish an endowment fund for the American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan.

Indiana University Bloomington will have a major presence in the international exchange of ideas this academic year. Four professors and 13 students from the campus were awarded Fulbright grants for 2004-05, the university announced today (Oct. 26).

A 50-year commitment to excellence in vision care, education, research and service has resulted in the IU School of Optometry becoming one of the leading vision centers in the world.

Indiana University will present Professor Thubten Norbu with its Distinguished International Service Award during dedication ceremonies for the Tibetan Cultural Center's Chamtse Ling Temple on Sept. 7. Norbu is the older brother of the Dalai Lama, who will visit Bloomington that day to lead the dedication.