An immigrant from the United Kingdom whose parents had fled Iraq during the Baath regime, Dr. Mona Hanna recalls that “as a young immigrant, I may have been scared, and my school lunches looked and ...

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2024 African School of Economics $350,000 International Peace and Security ...

This article was first published online in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 19, 2024. Reprinted with permission. Carnegie Corporation of New York will devote $4 million to three of the city’s ...

This article is part of a series featuring winners of Profiles in Collective Leadership, an initiative by Carnegie Corporation of New York in partnership with the nonprofit Transcend, that recognizes ...

New York, NY, September 19, 2024 — The philanthropic foundation established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie announced today a return to its historic roots with $4 million in grants to public libraries ...

In 1995, a World Bank report found that around 23,000 qualified academic staff were leaving Africa each year, in a brain drain that has contributed to severe shortages of faculty and resources at ...

How can education better prepare students for the workforce? And what are some community-driven models we could all learn from? In July, the Fordham Institute hosted a webinar that brought together ...

“What keeps you from innovating is being comfortable. If you’re an immigrant, then you’re used to being out of your comfort zone,” Noubar Afeyan told “Forbes” in 2016. Afeyan is founder and CEO of ...

Physicist Daniel Tsui's research laid the groundwork for the development of superconductors. For his 1991 discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998.