June 20, 2012
Fifteen alumni representing the CEU Alumni Chapter in Belarus initiated a volunteer-driven fundraising campaign in 2011, which resulted in the successful establishment of the Vitali Silitski Supplementary Scholarship at CEU in memory of the late CEU alumnus and distinguished Belarusian scholar. The scholarship, in the amount of 1500 USD (or 750 USD per annum), is intended to be awarded to one outstanding CEU Belarusian student every year. The first recipient of the scholarship is two-year MA student Tatiana Kliatskova (ECON '13).
June 20, 2012
The president of Malawi recently appointed Jolly Wasambo, a 2011 PhD graduate from the Department of Environmental Studies and Policy, to the position of environmental and soil health expert within the newly established Green Belt Initiative.
June 20, 2012
CEU Legal Studies Professor Csilla Kolonay-Lehoczky received the 2012 Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum Prize. Mate Szabo, ombudsman for fundamental rights in Hungary, emphasized in his laudatio that the prize was awarded to Kollonay-Lehoczky for her outstanding achievements in the fields of labor and social laws. The prize is named after Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph's saying “Justice is Fundamental to Reign.”
June 5, 2012
Bernadett Koles, Associate Professor of Management at CEU Business School and Co-Director of the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation research center received the Best Competitive Paper Award - First Rank recognition for her paper that she presented at a conference organized by the International Management Research Academy in May in London. The conference attracted participant from 33 countries, representing academia as well as public and private organizations with a focus on emerging markets.
June 5, 2012
At its May 18 meeting, CEU’s Academic Senate approved two new master's programs. One, a two-year Master of Public Policy program in the School of Public Policy, offers an academic curriculum consisting of core, specialization, and elective courses; skill-development modules; and a practical experience component. The other is a two-year Master of Arts program in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy and Management.
June 5, 2012
Claudia Alexandra Manta, a PhD student in gender studies, was recently named a top finalist in the Google Photography Prize, a student photography contest judged by renowned artists, photographers, and other leaders in the field. Manta shot the photo—recognized in the travel category—at Vienna's Natural History Museum. She and the other nine top finalists won a trip to London to see their work displayed at the Saatchi Gallery in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "Out of Focus: Photography" that features works of well-known photographers.
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