Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Through Nov. 13-17, the Roukema Center for International Education went big this year to celebrate International Education Week (IEW) by offering more than 15 events that vary from educational to practical to just plain fun. IEW is a joint initiative from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College of New Jersey Through his own encounters and one migrant’s personal testimony, Dr. Behzad Yaghmaian took the audience of Ramapo’s latest Global Talks event on a journey of emotional migrant stories. The March 22 Webex lecture was co-sponsored by the Roukema Center for International Education, […]
Photo by Hope Patti On Wednesday evening, Ramapo College launched its Year of Sub-Saharan Africa, a year-round program which aims to offer diverse opportunities for both students and faculty to engage with this unique region of the world. Throughout the 2016-17 academic year, the Roukema Center for International Education will […]
Next Friday, March 11, will mark the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the Fukushima prefecture of Japan. The natural calamities alone killed nearly 16 thousand people, and while the short and long term effects of the exposure to the leaked […]
Photo by Hope Patti Eric Weiner, an environmental science professor, gave a presentation entitled “Ecological Culture in the Peruvian Amazon” in Friends Hall this past Tuesday, highlighting his personal experiences in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Sharing anecdotes and photographs, Weiner spent time describing the food of Peru. He included his […]
