August 5, 2014
Tibet is almost the most touchy issue between rising China and the incumbent West. Is the Tibetan issue a pure human rights issue, as most people believe, or there is something more? Paul Lacourbe, associate professor of Operations Management at CEU Business School, discussed “The Two Fairytales about Tibet” in his second TEDx talk.
August 4, 2014
CEU Business School's Center for Integrity in Business and Government (CIBG) held its first full executive training entitled “Managing Integrity: What Executives Need to Know” on June 23-24 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The training was the continuation of two workshops and a pilot executive training held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 2012 and in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2013. 29 business executives and managers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia participated in the executive training.
August 1, 2014
Several changes and new appointments in the central administration took effect on August 1. “The new organization, which streamlines the central administration by combining several functions and reducing the number of senior positions, will enhance CEU’s capacity to achieve excellence in the pursuit of our open society mission,” said President and Rector John Shattuck.
July 31, 2014
Recents tests completed by the Budapest Waterworks confirmed that the quality of drinking water, ie. fountain and kitchen tap water, at CEU's Nador Campus meets all Hungarian and EU standards for safe and healthy drinking water. The testing of the water was initiated with the intent to encourage community members to have full confidence in choosing tap water for hydration needs on campus. Choosing tap water has significant environmental, health, and economic benefits, a few of which are highlighted in the attached image.
July 31, 2014
The Provost's Office and the CEU Web Unit have developed a way to promote CEU's research excellence by highlighting our many important research projects on the institutional website. The new Research Projects page lists the ongoing projects in chronological order with basic information on each project at http://www.ceu.hu/research/projects.
July 31, 2014
Room 004 in CEU’s Nador 14 building is the first smart classroom at the University. The room features a 70-inch interactive whiteboard on the front wall on which presentation files, web pages, and multimedia material can be displayed. The whiteboard automatically projects onto a larger screen above it for maximum visibility across the classroom, and can be synchronized with individual devices in use in the room, such as laptops and tablets. There are two other flat screens in the room, which can be synchronized or used separately for group work.
July 28, 2014
The rapid development of shale gas in the U.S. is prompting other countries to develop their own shale gas resources. From June 2–3, CEU professors Andreas Goldthau and Michael LaBelle presented their research on Bulgaria’s ban on shale gas at the World Bank Institute in Washington D.C. The invited audience assembled for the World Bank Institute Learning Symposium on Governance of Unconventional Gas: Exploring How to Deliver Transparent Benefits in Non-OECD Countries.
July 16, 2014
Mahesh Pradhan, the head of UNEP’s Environmental Education and Training Unit (EETU) in Nairobi, Kenya, spent last week at CEU as a co-director for the Summer University course titled “Bridging ICTs and Environment – Making Information Talk and Technologies Work.”
July 16, 2014
Esri, one of the leading global geospatial software companies based in Redlands, California, donated over 30 licenses of their latest geographic information systems (GIS) software, ArcGIS 10, for CEU students and faculty.
July 1, 2014
In the summer, the Planet newsletter will be issued on a monthly basis, on August 5. The Communications Office will resume biweekly publication on September 9. Should you want to share your news with the CEU community, submit news items to planet@ceu.hu.
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