MU MAIPFD Programs Promote International Diversity

Building Bridges
Learn about other countries and cultures without ever leaving home.

Building Classroom Competence Courses help international teaching assistants become more proficient in the classroom.

Women's History Month at Mizzou
"Inspiring Hope and Possibilities: A Celebration and Call to Action"

MU Students Teach for America
Twenty eight MU students applied to the Teach for America program. A substantial number of students from MU will enter class rooms across the nation this fall and begin their journey as life-long leaders committed to ensuring that all of our nation’s children have an equal chance in life.

News and Events

• Women’s History Month Calendar of Events
• Asian Affairs Center Tea Talk Tuesdays beginning February 2nd.
• 2004 Mizzou Undergraduate Research Conference, April 27
• 2004 Fulbright Prize Call for Nominations
• FACSS sponsored Bone Marrow Donation Blood Test Drive, March 19, 12:00 – 5:00pm Room 116, Black Culture Center

Multicultural hour
Date and venue for Multicultural hour, Thursdays 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm at Memorial Union – “Come enjoy a casual atmosphere –conversation—free coffee and snacks!

German and Russian Studies is seeking a Graduate TA in Japanese
Graduate TA in Japanese needed to teach and grade second year Japanese courses. Also, the department seeks seeks a Japanese grad student to conduct lab sessions for Elementary Japanese 1 and 2 More

There is a new Europeans Study Opportunity at the University of Rome. More

MU Welcomes the following Fulbright Scholars to Campus:

Cho, Ji-Hyung
Associate Professor, Department of History, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

Eid Altarazi, Eid Abdel Rahman
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan

Vladymyrov, Volodymyr
Doctoral Candidate, Editorial and Publishing Department, Institute of Journalism, Kyiv National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

MU Professors Named 2003-2004
Fulbright Scholar Grant Recipients

Six MU faculty members have been named 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar Grant Recipients. The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, with additional funding provided by the participating governments and host institutions in the United States and abroad.

Bettina Drew
Assistant Professor, English Department
Lecturing/Research: History of the American Antebellum South and Indian Removal, Russian Serfdom and Contemporary Life, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
January 2004 – August 2004

David English
W. F. Fratcher Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, School of Law Lecturing/Research: Comparative Study and Teaching of U.S-Japanese Trust and Elder Law, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan April 2004 – September 2004

William Jacoby
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lecturing/Research: Quality Improvement Through the Use of Statistical Methods in Manufacturing, Research and Development; Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals; Off-Grid Water Treatment University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay June 2003 – August 2003

Edwin Kaiser
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry Department
Lecturing/Research: Organic Chemistry; Selective Metalations of Active Hydrogen Compounds by Strong Basic Reagents. University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana August 2003 – June 2004

David Mandy
Professor, Department of Economics Research: Exact Asymptotic Properties of Econometric Estimators When Unobservables Have a Finite Moving Average, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, January 2004 – June 2004

David O’Brien
Professor, Department of Rural Sociology
Research: From Survival to Sustainable Rural Communities in Russia, Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Moscow, Russia September 2003 – July 2004