by Beth Holmes | Nov 8, 2021 | News, Profiles, Teacher Issues
Angela Ghayur is teaching a thousand students who would not otherwise get an education now – women and girls in Taliban-held Afghanistan. Ghayur was only 13 when she began teaching, a refugee from Afghanistan in Iran. Her family had managed to surmount the paperwork...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 13, 2021 | News, Profiles
Paul Ninson wants to leave his mark on his home country in the form of a photography library. Born in rural poverty and a father too young, Paul Ninson supported his daughter by printing t-shirts while still a student and selling them door to door, a grind that kept...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 12, 2021 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Ku Stevens will run 50 miles in remembrance of his great-grandfather’s escape attempts from the Stewart Indian School in Nevada. When Stevens’ great-grandfather, Frank Quinn, was a child, he was placed in the Stewart Indian School, a military-style...
by Supporting Education | Jan 9, 2019 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
In 1994, a number of professionals in science and education were invited by Senator Diane Watson to visit South Africa and evaluate the status of education there. Among that group was Professor Hal Walker, who worked on Apollo 11, and his wife Doctor Bettye D. Walker,...
by Sarah Green | Oct 21, 2016 | News, Profiles
Many of us have strong feelings for the schools that gave us the skills to succeed in our chosen fields. This is certainly true for graduates of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Several of them have stepped in to serve on their postgrad alma...
