Make college more affordable for your high school students—and help them grow as global citizens and 21st century professional—while earning ACT 48 professional development credits.

The College in High School program and the University Center for International Studies will host a summer institute for secondary educators interested in teaching globally focused courses that offer transferable college credit to students at their high school. Courses in which you can obtain certification and training may include:

Fox Chapel Area High School is proud to announce this year's Pittsburgh World Language Connection Day, with Keynote speaker Professor Richard Donato. This is a great opportunity for world language teachers to learn about new pedagogies. Bring along your principals, curriculum directors, and administrators to learn about how to enhance your school's international programs through meaningful and fun community connections.

Prisie Badu, director of Playing to Live, will present about the systematic challenges that fragile states like Liberia face when working with child and family programming. Mrs. Badu has 25 years experience in social welfare, psycho-social and child programming. She works ministries of government, universities, and nonprofit sectors to help support marginalized and vulnerable children. She will also present opportunities for internships and advice for entering the nonprofit sector in Africa.

International Career Toolkit Series will be hosting an event this Friday at 12:00-1:30 p.m. in WWPH 4217. Usha E. Pitts will be giving a talk entitled "Careers in Diplomacy". The U.S. Department of State is one of the few employers who will pay you to live and work abroad without requiring a specialized skill. It hires Americans over the age of 20 from all walks of life. If you are attracted to public service and want to live abroad, come learn more about Careers in Diplomacy from Usha Pitts, a diplomat with 19 years in the Foreign Service.

Save the date for the EU Development Symposium, to be held on the afternoon of Monday, December 5th!

Primary Guest:
Renate Hahlen, the Minister Counselor of Development at the Delegation of the European Union to the US

To be accompanied on the following panels by:

EU Development Policy & Latin America and the Caribbean
Scott Morgenstern, Director Center for Latin American Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Torture in the French-Algerian War

The French authorities systematically used torture in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). The lecture explores that practice and tests two theses: 1. Democracies tend to use torture in asymmetric conflicts when faced with terrorist methods. 2. Torture goes along with the erosion of basic democratic structures and principles.

Come an enjoy an evening of humanitarian fellowship, while helping Foundation Bon Samaritan reach their goal of providing economic stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo through education and empowerment. Entertainment (live performances) and hors d'oeuvre are included. Cash bar available.

Foundation Bon Samaritan is a Pittsburgh PA based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It is the mission, duty and purpose of Foundation Bon Samaritan , Inc. to popularize the notion of Good Samaritan “to grow mercy”

The questions driving research in Quaternary climate, the period of geological time that includes the recent ice ages and interglacial climatic periods, and environmental change are important not only for our understanding of how the Earth System has changed in the past, but also because this time period represents the closest analog for what we will be seeing in the near future. My research focuses in part on understanding climate and environmental change in low latitude systems, such as in East Africa. At low latitudes, temperature changes are measureable, e.g.

This weeklong summer institute is designed for French instructors, as well as advanced level college students to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for the teaching of French language and culture. The morning session will focus on content, discussion, and teaching strategies on topics including: the roots of Islam, the role of women, terrorism, and innovation and globalization in France and Francophone countries.

The emergence of international capitalism depended on the creation of a highly mobile working class that built, loaded, and sailed the ships that connected the globe. These ships inaugurated the Atlantic slave trade and other labor migrations, making possible new regimes of accumulation and labor based in port cities, dynamic centers of power that linked the slave labor of colonial plantations to Europe and other parts of the world. The laborers of port cities – sailors, indentured servants, and slaves, workers free and unfree – are the subjects of this workshop.