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Happy International Women’s Day!
The 2017 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (#AEIF2017) has begun! exchange alumni can submit proposals for funding until the March 30th deadline.
AEIF public service projects are awarded grants of up to $25,000. Alumni submit proposals under one of five themes, including these options: business development, civic participation, education, cooperation in science, and empowerment of women and girls. AEIF projects help make changes in communities around the world.
Want to see the result of a successful AEIF project?
Look no further than this project in Armenia.
will there be AEIF 2017?
Hello, yes AEIF will be launching on March 2nd. Please visit https://alumni.state.gov/aeif for more information.
Regards,
Team International Exchange Alumni
Happy Birthday to American novelist Toni Morrison!
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
It's Presidents’ Day ! Presidents' Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. It was originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington. It is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and president. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2kBlUNj Pictured above is Mount Rushmore National Memorial a sculpture carved into the face of a mountain in South Dakota. It features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Local Volunteers Begin Constructing Compost Bins for “Building Soil and Community”
Designs were finalized and construction is underway for a three-bin style composting system to be used for our community composting project in Lynchburg, Virginia. Can’t wait to begin demonstrating how we can divert waste from the landfill and put nutrients back into the soil!
Check out this exchange alumni small grants project in action!
Capturing "I Do" in the Deep South
Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.9.11.
Since the 1840s, photography at weddings has been used as a way to capture the important moments, communicate with friends and family, and mark the celebratory occasion. For African Americans, this celebration of the important moments played a role in normalizing the middle-class lived experience. Into the 1960s and 1970s, most photographers of African American weddings were black.
In the early days of wedding photography, couples had to hold long uncomfortable poses in order for their special moment to be captured on film. As photography evolved the process became simpler and photographers began to document dynamic moments throughout the entire wedding ceremony. During segregation, caricatures and negative depictions of the black community were common in mainstream media. Black photographers were able to create more positive narratives by capturing images of the communities in which they lived. Serving not only the broader narrative but individuals as well, these photographers gave newlyweds an irreplaceable gift by capturing iconic moments from the big day.
Black photographer Henry Clay Anderson captured African American couples as they began their lives together on their wedding day. Using his lens, Anderson documented weddings and daily life for almost 40 years in the segregated Mississippi Delta town of Greenville. For African Americans living in the South before the Civil Rights Movement, having their joyous life moments documented in photos was significant because most black life in the South was captured by photojournalists. Images of dilapidated tenement homes and the effects of Jim Crow dominated the media when Northern photojournalists were sent South to document black life. They rarely used their cameras to depict positive happenings in the segregated black communities. Photographers like Anderson, Addison Scurlock and James Van Der Zee used their cameras to showcase and highlight, the rarely seen daily life of the black community.
Despite the ugly stain of segregation, the African American couples and families depicted in the photos loved one another and used their elaborate wedding ceremonies to celebrate life and family bonding. Anderson’s wedding photos include lace wedding gowns, receptions, cake ceremonies and the wedding parties. When Anderson photographed weddings, it was his ability to narrow the lens and focus on a groom’s first glance at his new wife, or capture the joy of a couple’s first dance — that showed the humanity of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
The entire Henry Clay Anderson Collection was donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson. We’ve compiled a few beautiful wedding photographs from the collection below:
Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.24.4.
Photo: Wedding party. Collection Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.24.18.
Photo: Wedding portrait of couple. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.9.3
Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, object 2012.137.24.17.
Photo: Wedding portrait of couple. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.9.6.
Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.3.9.
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Astronaut Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space… but before that, she was a Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day! We’re celebrating amazing women like Astronaut Mae Jemison.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Happy Birthday to acclaimed novelist Alice Walker. Learn more about her life and works.
Get ready: the 2017 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund begins on March 2! Current and past exchange program participants are invited to compete to win up to $25,000 in support of their public service projects!
Does your project have what it takes to win? #AEIF2017
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Happy Belated Birthday to Civil Rights pioneer, Rosa Parks! Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her actions were a major catalyst in the Civil Rights movement. Learn more.
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February 1st marked National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
U.S. Department of State Global Sports Mentoring program celebrated by looking back over the years at the international impact of their program. Enjoy the photos above and learn more.
Hungarian Alumnus Conducts Life-Saving Cancer Research
As a doctor and pathologist, Dr. A. Marcell Szasz has committed his life to improving the health and wellbeing of others. As a participant of the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund (HAESF) and the Fulbright program, Dr. Szasz further honed his life-saving research and leadership skills. In addition to working on his scientific research projects, Dr. Szasz focused on observing local clinical cases, attending clinicopathological rounds, and participating in his host institution’s daily meetings, presentations, and education sessions.
Dr. Szasz credits his exchange experiences with positively impacting both his professional and personal life explaining, “since returning to Hungary, I routinely call upon not just the technical knowledge I gained as an exchange scholar in the United States, but also the personal experiences from my daily life there to inform, shape, and benefit my collaboration and interaction with my family and friends, patients, colleagues, and mentored students.”
When he returned from his Fulbright program, Dr. Szasz utilized the knowledge and skills he gained to re-train all medical students working on breast cancer research in tissue and sample collection procedures. The new procedures he introduced ensure the collection of more viable samples, less pain for patients, and more successful research results in his work on breast cancer prevention. Together with his supervised PhD students, Dr. Szasz has also initiated a comprehensive registry of data for breast cancer patients to define prognostic factors in a much more effective way than previously available. The registry allows oncology centers to tailor treatment options for each individual patient.
Between conducting life-saving research and working with his patients, Dr. Szasz still finds time to play an active role in the alumni community and to educate and inspire the next generation. A firm believer in transparency and public education, he regularly works to educate people about medicine, pathology, and research. Seizing upon the opportunity to give back to the alumni community and to inspire youth, Dr. Szasz presented to a local high school in March 2015 as part of the “Meet the Scientist” Program, a joint initiative of the U.S. Embassy Budapest and the Hungarian Association for Innovation. Dr. Szasz considers his role as a mentor as one of the most exciting challenges in his career as a scientist, and appreciates any opportunity to educate and inspire young people about STEM.
As a scientist with international experience through the HAESF and Fulbright programs, and with his multidisciplinary approach to work, Dr. Szasz continues to focus on international collaboration and joint projects. He believes that this kind of international cooperation provides greater perspective and more research inspiration. Dr. Szasz’s commitment to international collaboration, and his devotion to inspiring the next generation of potential scientists, could lead to life-saving breakthroughs impacting the lives of individuals around the globe.
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