Central Eurasian Studies Department
Ten faculty members at Indiana University have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2011-12 academic year. The Fulbright recipients represent three IU campuses -- Bloomington, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne -- and their research and academic activity take place worldwide.
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Pasi Sahlberg, an official with the Finnish education ministry and an internationally known expert on education issues, will speak Friday, Jan. 20, at Indiana University Bloomington on the educational reforms Finland has implemented in the past 30 years.
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The Language Flagship, an initiative of the National Security Education Program within the U.S. Department of Defense, has chosen Indiana University Bloomington as the only location for its program in Turkish and other Turkic languages.
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György Kara, professor of Central Eurasian Studies in the IU College of Arts and Sciences and a specialist in the languages and cultures of Mongolia and Inner Asia, was honored for his lifetime achievements at the 54th annual Permanent International Altaistic Conference.
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Three faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University have been selected as fellows at the National Humanities Center for the 2011-12 academic year. They are among 32 leading scholars from 21 colleges and universities who were chosen to spend the year working on research projects at the center in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Aside from Duke University and the University of North Carolina, IU is the only university with more than one fellow.
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Language specialists at Indiana University have developed a new application for the iPad that will help people working in strategic areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan to read and write in Pashto, one of the region's primary languages.
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