a day in the life 2005
November 17, 2005: A day in the life of four 2005 SRP Fellows |
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Samer Asfour ‘05, Jordan, spends the day at the University of Denver, where he addresses students and faculty before meeting with students in the Daniels College of Business and the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management. During the visit, Samer plans, with University faculty, to have a delegation of businesspeople and students from Denver visit Jordan in 2006 to explore opportunities in the real estate market and to gain international experiences they can share with their home communities. |
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Iman Hammouri ‘05, Palestine, completes a two-day whirlwind tour of San Antonio, Texas, arts & community organizations, during which she visited Southwest School of Art and Craft and the Guadalupe Cultural Art Center. Her time in San Antonio is devoted to the relationship between arts education and social justice, and, in addition to visits to various arts centers, she spent time with the staff & students of Say Sí, a long-term visual and media arts program for students in San Antonio's urban high schools and middle schools. Her two-day visit was coordinated by Jon Hinojosa, executive director of Say Sí. |
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Abeer Mishkhas ‘05, Saudi Arabia, spends the morning, in her words, getting “insights into how the American media is ‘soul searching’.” She meets with free-lance journalist and professor Alisa Solomon at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. They have a lively discussion on the economic and political challenges American journalists are facing and in particular how those challenges affect the coverage of international issues in the American press. |
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Hazem Kawasmi ‘05, Palestine, visits the Small Business Administration in Washington, DC, in the morning to become more familiar with the services offered by the federal government to small businesses throughout the U.S. Much of Hazem’s fellowship program is devoted to thinking about how to support economic growth in Palestine. In the afternoon, he meets with staff at the American Task Force on Palestine, a non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing about lasting peace and stability in the Middle East. |
November 17, 2005: A day in the life of four 2005 SRP Fellows |
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Danah Dajani ’05, Jordan, visits Youth Outlook (Yo!), an award-winning literary journal of youth life, in San Francisco to see first-hand youth-produced media. There she meets with the young people who write and produce the monthly journal, and is exposed to “young journalists from all walks of life.” As a result of the visit, young people from Danah’s center in Jordan are invited to write for Yo!, and to read and be exposed to issues at the global level written by youth for youth. |
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Gehan Fahmy ’05, Egypt, attends the 1st Annual St. Jude Biomedical Research Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Organogenesis in Memphis, Tennessee. Through exposure to new & exciting research and interactions with colleagues from throughout the country, Gehan gains new ideas for her own research, which she will resume upon her return to Egypt. Among the research topics she anticipates pursuing are the ability of mammalian animals to regenerate their eye lenses using exogenous growth factors. |
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Sherif Kamel ’05, Egypt, meets with Jeffrey Moore, senior lecturer of operations, information, & technology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. In addition to latest trends in information systems curricula for undergraduate and graduate students, the meeting focuses on increasingly popular executive education programs in technology. Moore, who helps to develop and teach executive education programs at Stanford, offers insights into program development and execution. |
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Awwad Al-Awwad ’05, Saudi Arabia, speaks at a reception held in his honor at Boston University School of Law, where he received his LLM in Banking Law in 1996. He takes advantage of the opportunity to reconnect with faculty and to meet current students, as well as to reflect on his accomplishments since his graduation. The visit also allows him to compare the school with those in Saudi Arabia, and he takes ideas for the development of universities in his own country. |
April 29, 2005: A day in the life of four 2005 MNP Fellows |
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Micaela McGinley ’05, Northern Ireland, follows the previous day’s ride-along with Vail, Colorado’s Police Chief Dwight Henninger by taking part in a community spring cleaning of highway I-70. In Vail, she observes and discusses the small police force’s personalized techniques to address local issues and the opportunities given to the larger community to provide the force with direct feedback. |
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Hee-Lim Ryu ’05, Korea, visits the offices of the Wall Street Journal in Los Angeles, California to discuss trends in US journalism with staff reporters. In the afternoon, he visits the west coast site of the Museum of Television and Radio to discuss his work in Korean cable news. In the coming weeks, he will follow up by visiting the museum’s east coast location in New York City and meeting with museum president and Eisenhower Fellow Stuart Brotman ’05, USA. |
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Yusuf Abubakar ’05, Nigeria, has a full-day site visit at the Treasure Island Job Corps program in San Francisco, California. There he observes the residential organization’s vocational training programs, as well as its charter high school and health clinic. Later in the day he attends the school’s graduation ceremony, in which students receive their diplomas. |
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Santiago Castro ’05, Colombia, spends the day, in his words, “witnessing the nuts and bolts of American capitalism.” He begins with the Chicago Board of Trade, where he watches the market open for the day, and then spends mid-day at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Here he meets with Diana Amacker, the manager of international relations, and gets an overview of the market and electronic trading. The day concludes at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. |
May 11, 2005: A day in the life of four 2005 MNP Fellows |
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Nora Manjaa ’05, Mongolia, meets and exchanges strategies for promoting women’s issues and best practices in women’s programs with the director of the Women’s Empowerment Program at the Asia Foundation in Washington, DC. This is followed by a dinner meeting with Dr. Alicia Campi, formerly of the State Department and currently with the American Immigration Law Foundation, to discuss current affairs in Mongolia and grassroots efforts to promote governmental reform and transparency. |
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Kenias Mafukidze ’05, Zimbabwe, visits the Washington-based Corporate Council on Africa, an organization dedicated to enhancing trade and investment ties between the US and African countries. His substantive discussions with Brian Baltimore, the head of the CCA's Financing Task Force, lead to a joint effort to bring Zimbabwean business people to the Council’s 2005 summit in order to facilitate relationships and networks between them and American businesses interested in Africa. |
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Josiano Gomes Chavez ’05, Brazil, travels to Raleigh, North Carolina to meet with staff at the North Carolina Office of Medicaid Management Information System Services. There he discusses the use of information technology systems in the provision of health care and the interactions between state and federal systems. Next he goes to the North Carolina Office of Research, Demonstrations, and Rural Health Development, to discuss health promotion in rural areas and health care for seniors. |
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Maliki Osman ’05, Singapore, attends a think tank on compulsive gambling in Orlando, Florida sponsored by the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling. This by-invitation-only gathering gives him access to leading thinkers on gambling addiction, a wealth of information on gambling in the US, and contacts for the future as Singapore begins its foray into the gaming industry. |