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Indiana University students will learn about global environmental issues and develop their Russian language skills, and IU faculty members will find opportunities for research collaboration with Russian scientists and scholars as part of a partnership agreement signed Thursday (April 29) by IU President Michael A. McRobbie and the leaders of Tyumen State University and Tyumen State Agricultural Academy.
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IU's Polish Studies Center is inviting people to sign a book of condolences for those who died in Saturday's plane crash at Smolensk, Russia, including Poland's president and dozens of political, military and civilian leaders.
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It has been four years since the longest and most prominent war crimes trial of the modern era was brought to an abrupt halt by the death of the defendant: Slobodan Milosevic. A conference today (Feb. 19) through Sunday at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law revisits the trial, which left the court, the people of the former Yugoslavia, and the world community without a definitive legal resolution.
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Indiana University students will learn about global environmental issues and develop their Russian language skills and IU faculty members will find opportunities for research collaboration with Russian scientists and scholars under a new, federally funded project. The project, a partnership with Russia's Tyumen State University and Tyumen State Agricultural Academy, is funded by a three-year, $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
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Indiana University's Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide language and culture training to 70 senior U.S. military and State Department officials who will command and participate in 12 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan.
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Indiana University has been awarded a two-year, $400,000 federal grant for a project in which faculty and students from two IU campuses will work with a Russian university on language learning and the study of public health and health policy. The grant is from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
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