A successful program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business that last summer taught dozens of college students from the Middle East and North Africa to become entrepreneurs is being expanded this summer to include those from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has been chosen to advise the Constitutional Review Committee of the Government of Liberia on the review and design of amendments to the country's 1986 constitution.

To foster greater understanding of social entrepreneurship within the context of American culture, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business is hosting a program for 20 students from across Europe, sponsored by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The college-age students will arrive at IU Bloomington on July 1 from more than a dozen countries across Europe, including Greece, Spain and Portugal.

During a visit to Shanghai, IU President Michael A. McRobbie bestowed one of IU's highest honors to Tongkui Ju, a distinguished jurist in China and a 1949 graduate of the Maurer School of Law. He will receive the Thomas Hart Benton Medal, which is given to individuals who have achieved a level of distinction in public office or service and have exemplified the values of Indiana University. For more than three decades, Ju has fostered close ties to IU and the Maurer School, hosting students in its alumni shadow program and assisting those hoping to connect with other IU alumni and lawyers in Shanghai.

Indiana University scholars are helping produce a comprehensive history of Liberia, a key strategy for developing a sense of unity and reconciliation as the democratic West African nation continues to move forward from nearly three decades of conflict and civil war.

Indiana University has expanded on a strategic partnership with Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. The partnership has resulted in the opening of a new philanthropy center at SYSU, the first major center for the study of philanthropy in South China, which has been modeled on and developed in partnership with the newly named IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

While in Beijing, IU President Michael A. McRobbie signed a renewed agreement of friendship and cooperation between IU and Peking University, the first established modern national university of China, and a new agreement that will generate graduate student and staff exchanges between IU and PKU. He also hosted a special presidential reception for incoming IU students from China, their families and alumni.

Meetings with South Korean higher education leaders, a reception for new Korean students and the renewal of an agreement between Indiana University and one of Korea's top research universities highlighted IU President Michael A. McRobbie's visit to Seoul.

Looking to further broaden Indiana University's international reach and to increase educational and research opportunities for its students and faculty, IU President Michael A. McRobbie will leave Saturday for South Korea, China and Taiwan.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presided over groundbreaking ceremonies today for the new home of the School of Global and International Studies, which was approved by the IU Board of Trustees in August 2012.

Eleven students who are studying at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law have been named Milton Stewart Fellows and will participate as summer interns in Brazil, India, Japan and South Korea through the law school's Center on the Global Legal Profession.

Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and a faculty member in Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies.

With the world's attention focused on North Korea and Iran, a panel of international negotiation and engagement experts will gather at two IU campuses for a forum, a conference and meetings that will address a fundamental question: Can conflict be avoided?

Indiana University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding with a commemoratory event Thursday.

Indiana University Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel presented at an inaugural three-day international conference in India focusing on the future of higher education there, which included Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India.

During a visit to two Indiana University campuses, Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, president of Thailand's leading graduate-level educational institution, will receive an honorary doctorate.

An expert on the history of Islamic art and architecture who has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University five times and a former deputy minister within the Syrian government has been provided refuge at IU through the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund. He will teach in IU's new School of Global and International Studies.

Feisal Amin Rasoul Istrabadi, director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and a University Scholar in international law and diplomacy at Indiana University Bloomington, has been invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations.

Maya Jasanoff, professor of history at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, will present the second lecture in the 2013 Global Perspectives Speaker Series at 4 p.m. onThursday, March 7, in the Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

Students at Indiana University have a new tool that provides them with quick and easy access to knowledge about how to conduct business effectively with people all over the world. IU is the first university in the United States to offer enterprise-wide GlobeSmart, a web-based product from Aperian Global, a company that offers consulting, training, and web tools for global talent development. GlobeSmart provides in-depth information and advice about business, culture, and travel-related topics in more than 65 countries.

In view of our increasingly interconnected world, Indiana University's Center for the Study of Global Change and the Center for the Study of the Middle East are partnering with Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana to internationalize Ivy Tech's curriculum.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has entered into a partnership with the newly formed American University of Mongolia to offer an MBA for global executives beginning in September.

Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and a faculty member in Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies, will present the Patrick O'Meara International Lecture on Feb. 18 at IU Bloomington.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has announced that former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator in Indiana's history and the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will join the faculty of IU's School of Global and International Studies. U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton will join Lugar as a distinguished scholar and professor of practice in the School of Global and International Studies. Lugar and Hamilton, whose senatorial and congressional papers are housed at IU, will also co-chair the new IU International Advisory Committee.

Lee Hamilton, director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University and an important voice on international relations for more than 40 years, will present the inaugural talk in the Global Perspectives Speaker Series at Indiana University on Jan. 29.