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Press Releases

• Brown Student Wins Fellowship to Support Women’s Health Abroad
  (5/3/2012) World Learning congratulates the newest recipient of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship, which returns alumni of its undergraduate study abroad program to their host countries to advance human rights.
  
  
  
• Moldova Elects World Learning Alum as President
  (3/28/2012) World Learning congratulates Nicolae Timofti on winning Moldova's presidency. Timofti visited the US with World Learning's International Visitor Leadership Program in 2005, while he was a judge in Moldova's Supreme Council of Magistrates.
  
  
• New Program Strengthens Mideast English Teaching
  (3/28/2012) World Learning is partnering with the nonprofit AMIDEAST to offer the Professional Certificate in English Language Teaching, or PCELT, program to teachers across the Middle East and North Africa.
  
  
• World Learning Partners with the International Language Institute
  (3/28/2012) International students will have more opportunities to pursue master's degrees in the United States through a new agreement between World Learning's SIT Graduate Institute and the International Language Institute of Massachusetts.
  
  
• Development Cuts Concern World Learning, NGOs
  (3/22/2012) World Learning and nearly 200 other development and humanitarian organizations say proposed cuts to development and relief funding in the FY2013 Ryan budget would undermine current aid efforts at a time when the US should be increasing its "civilian international engagement."
  
  

In The News

• World Learning Alumna Recognized by State Department (U.S. State Department)
  May 01, 2012
  The U.S. State Department named Noof Assi the State Alumni Member of the month for May 2012 for her efforts to promote youth civic engagement in Iraq through social media. Assi participated in the World Learning administered Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) in 2010.
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• New York Times Publishes Study Abroad Students' Work (The New York Times)
  April 06, 2012
  Jacqueline Kantor and Kirsten Kortebein's article and photos on the Marathon des Sables, published in The New York Times, is the first major media placement of student work from the SIT Study Abroad Morocco program on journalism and new media.
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• Study Abroad Alumnus' Video Highlights Youth Identity Issues in Bosnia (Al Jazeera)
  April 03, 2012
  Jacob Seigel Boettner's independent study video provides youth perspectives on the challenges of defining national identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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• South American Youth Ambassadors Focus on Leadership at UVA (nbc29.com)
  March 25, 2012
  The University of Virginia's Center for Politics is hosting 30 Youth Ambassadors from Argentina and Chile for a week-long program focused on leadership training and civic engagement, as a part of their World Learning administered exchange to the US.
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• World Learning Welcomes Youth Ambassadors from Argentina (Buenos Aires Herald)
  March 25, 2012
  As part of one of World Learning's newest exchanges, fifteen Argentinean Youth Ambassadors will spend three weeks in the US on a State Department sponsored program aimed at developing their leadership skills and promoting cross-cultural understanding.
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2011 Press Releases

• Media Advisory: New Caribbean HIV/AIDS Project
  (12/6/2011) World Learning is proud to be part of a new initiative that could help save lives and fundamentally change the way Caribbean nations address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
  
  
  
• Christian Parenti Discusses the Links Between Climate Change and Violence
  (11/21/2011) Author and journalist Christian Parenti spoke to SIT Graduate Institute students about his prediction that the consequences of climate change will go beyond extreme weather to include increased regional and global conflict. 
  
  
• SIT to Organize Symposium in Rwanda
  (11/16/2011) Researchers and other experts will come together in Rwanda from January 10 – 13, 2012 to discuss the links between conflict and memory. The symposium is organized by the SIT Graduate Institute and SIT Study Abroad.
  
  
• World Learning Gives Mother, Daughter Global “Four-sight”
  (10/31/2011) Many families boast of multi-generational ties to one or two of World Learning's programs, but few can match that of a mother-daughter duo connected to four programs.
  
  
• SIT Alumna Wins Fellowship for Prisoner Art Project
  (10/27/2011) World Learning congratulates the newest recipient of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship, which returns alumni of its undergraduate study abroad program to their host countries to conduct human rights projects.
  
  

2011 In The News Articles

• Nobel Laureate Says Award Empowers Women (Associated Press)
  December 09, 2011
  Yemeni democracy advocate and World Learning alumna Tawakkol Karman said the period in which women appear as victims rather than leaders has ended, in remarks a day before she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.
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• Study Abroad Programs Remain Popular (SentinelSource.com)
  December 05, 2011
  The number of US undergraduates studying abroad increased by four percent last year, with more and more interested in programs like the ones World Learning offers in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through SIT Study Abroad.
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• World Learning Alumna Tops 2011 Global Thinkers List (Foreign Policy)
  November 29, 2011
  Yemeni democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman tied for the number one spot on this year's Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list. Karman, who participated in a State Department sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program tour of the United States, was chosen for "keeping the spirit of the Arab Spring alive."
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• Students Become "World Travelers" with the Experiment (naplesnews.com)
  November 26, 2011
  Seven Florida high school students had the chance to go "far, far away" from home this summer on Experiment trips to China, Ghana, Morocco, Thailand, and other countries.
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• SIT Professor Promotes Peace with "Strait Talk" (The Brown Daily Herald)
  November 15, 2011
  Tatsushi Arai, associate professor of conflict transformation at SIT Graduate Institute, coordinated the seventh annual Strait Talk Symposium at Brown University, which aims to improve relations between China and Taiwan.
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