| NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
Office of International Education Fall 2011 Snapshot
 The Office of International Education plays a central role in facilitating international partnerships, exchange and study opportunities. We are the center for undergraduate recruitment and admissions, English language instruction and legal and cross-cultural advising for all international student and scholars. As an office, our goal is to foster global citizens who live and work within a diverse world society.
Each semester we compile the OIE Snapshot to provide faculty, staff and students a glimpse into the work that we accomplish together as Marquette Global.
Click here to view the OIE Fall 2011 Snapshot.
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MU Honorary Degree recipient receives 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, recipient of Marquette University’s 2006 Honorary Degree, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize last week. Johnson Sirleaf is the first female elected head of state in Africa and was inaugurated in 2006. She is known internationally as a reformer and peacemaker in Liberia promoting gender equality, justice and democratic rule. A spokesman for the Unity Party in Liberia expressed, “This is proof that she has been doing well; there’s no cheating in this, this comes from other people. She’s doing very, very well. Her progress has been confirmed by the international community.” Other 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipients are Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women’s rights.
Read the bio and transcript from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 2006 address at Marquette University.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner: A life of achievement
 Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmental activist and founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, passed away from cancer this September at age 71. Her spirit continues to live on through a movement she began back in 1977 based on the simple idea of planting trees. Her goal was to increase African women’s access to the needed resources to cook and clean water. Maathai empowered women in African nations to mobilize community consciousness, using tree planting as an entry point for building self-determination, equity, improved livelihoods, security and environmental conservation. Throughout her life she became a mentor and environmental advocate for sustaining natural resources and social justice around the world. Her name resonates as a figure that was not afraid to take a stand to reverse backward foreign policy and misguided environmental policy to create a more just and peaceful world.
To read more about Wangari Maathai’s life accomplishments and the Green Belt Movement, visit the links below:
PBS Independent Lens production: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
The Nobel Peace Prize: Maathai’s Nobel acceptance speech and an interview
Her Work: The Green Belt Movement
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International job and internship web portal
 Marquette’s Career Services Center & the Office of International Education provide student access to GOINGLOBAL, a database listing more than 16 million jobs and internships in more than 80 locations around the world. Written in the local language by in-country career experts, GOINGLOBAL has up to date information on international employment, legal requirements, work permits, cultural advice and more. The database includes H1B visa employer listings, corporate profiles and worldwide job and internship postings. Access the database by logging into the Career Services Career Gateway.
Participate in an upcoming online demo to learn how to best utilize GoinGlobal’s resources and navigate job opportunities listed on the website. Click here to register.
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NYC Mayor established partnership emphasizing international students studying in the U.S.
 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the keynote speaker at a recent event hosted by the National Chamber Foundation speaking on behalf of international students who come to the U.S. to earn degrees in the sciences and technical fields. Bloomberg acknowledges the impact that international students can contribute to the economy and our communities. As a part of his immigration reform, Bloomberg established the Partnership for the New American Economy, a coalition of more than 350 mayors and business executives to get moving on legislation that will help the U.S. “grow its way out” of the current economic situation. The partnership highlights four main goals including initiatives to create a path whereby foreign students who are earning advanced degrees in technical fields from U.S. universities can be eligible to work in the U.S. permanently. Read further on NAFSA’s blog.
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New bill emphasizes peace and nonviolent global conflict resolutions
 Representative John Lewis (D-GA) introduced a bill (H.R. 3056) to the House last Friday to authorize the Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative that will focus on peace and nonviolence in global conflict resolution. If passed, the initiative would be carried out by the Secretary of State and representatives of the Indian government to create educational, scholarly and professional exchange programs including an annual public diplomacy forum, professional development training for government employees to develop international conflict solutions, and student exchange opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. Students involved in the exchange would study the lives of Mahatma Gandhi and Marin Luther King, Jr. by visiting historic sites in the U.S. and India while conducting research on the “importance of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation in current conflict regions.”
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EVENTS
Mid-term exams study break for students
October 16, 2011
4:30-7 p.m.
OIE Program Center, Holthusen Hall, 4th floor
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TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language
October 26, 2011
AMU Table: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Info Session: 4-6 p.m.; Career Services Seminar Room; Holthusen Hall
Interested in teaching English abroad? Check in with TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
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Tales of Clay
October 26, 2011
4-6 p.m.
Lalumiere 288
Dr. Nelson Lopez Rojas, visiting professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures wrote the bilingual annotated translation of "Cuentos de Barro" by Salvador Salazar Arrué. Salarrue's work is significant for the study of cultural evolution. In this book presentation, Nelson will talk about how social injustices and discrimination against indigenous peoples have left a bloody scar on El Salvador.
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Halloween Spooktacular
October 28, 2011
5-8 p.m.
OIE Program Center; Holthusen Hall, 4th floor
Join OIE for a Halloween Spooktacular! Participate in a costume contest, decorate cookies and carve pumpkins before heading over for Haunted Hoops basketball.
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Ibn Rushd/Avoerroes Seminar
November 2, 2011
2-3:30 p.m.
Alumni Memorial Union, 448
Maribel Fierro is a research professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council. Marquette professor, Richard Taylor, will join professor Fierro to present a seminar on Ibn Rushd/Averroes.
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Plants, Mary the Copt, Abraham, donkeys and knowledge: again on Batinism during the Umayyad Caliphate in Al-Andalus
November 2, 2011
4-6 p.m.
Reception to follow
Alumni Memorial Union, 227
Maribel Fierro is a research professor at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council. This presentation discusses tenth-century Umayyad rulers in Muslim Spain who struggled to defeat the Ismaili Fatimids caliphate in Tunis both in the battlefield and from the religious point of view.
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The United States and Korea: What's Next?
November 2, 2011
4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
Alumni Memorial Union, Monaghan Ballroom
Dr. Victor Cha, professor and the Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, will deliver the inaugural John K.C. Oh Lecutre on Korean Affairs. Cha served in the White House for four years as Director of Asian Affairs and is a regular contributer to discussions of east Asian security in the media.
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Scholarships & Conferences
 Check out our scholarships and conferences webpage dedicated to keeping up-to-date listings of scholarships, fellowships and academic conference opportunities available to undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff. Click on the links below for details and the complete listing.
Academic and Conference Opportunities
- Reconstructing National Identities: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America
Fellowships and Scholarships
- PARC 2012-13 Fellowship Competition for U.S. Scholars in Palestinian Studies
- PARC 2012-13 Fellowship Competition for Palestinian Scholars in Palestinian Studies
- Boren Scholarships and Fellowships now Available
- Biomedical Engineering - Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program
- Echoing Green Fellowship
- Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program
- Student Peacemaking Fellowships
- International Affairs Fellowship for Sophomores
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