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Five questions for Shubitha Kever Director of TRIO Programs, Purdue University Fort Wayne 1 Purdue University Fort Wayne for more than a decade has had in place a TRIO Student Support Services Program. In what ways does it help PFW students? TRIO programs are federal outreach and student service programs designed to help first-generation students prepare and complete college degrees. TRIO programs were authorized in the Higher Education Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as an initiative in the War on Poverty. The TRIO name refers to the original set of three programs authorized in t...

PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Community College has hired new staffers and promoted several others.

Global health leader is SIU Alumni Association’s 2021 Distinguished Alumna Tactical Navigation Global health leader is SIU Alumni Association’s 2021 Distinguished Alumna CARBONDALE, Ill. — Dr. Senait Fisseha, director of global programs for the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and chief adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, is the winner of the SIU Alumni Association’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor presented to alumni by the organization.  Fisseha will be honored, along with four other alumni of distinction, during an April 24 invitat...

  Damien Boutillon has joined BCC's TRIO (Talent, Resources, Initiative, Opportunity) Student Support Services Program as an Academic Advisor. Previously, he was a Strategic Planning Associate at Williams College and a Research Fellow at Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. A resident of Williamstown, Boutillon received a master's degree and a PhD in social anthropology from Durham University, England, a master's degree in linguistic anthropology from the School of Advanced Social Studies, Paris, and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Cambridge University, England.   Ashl...

Subscribe "These researchers not only contribute to the community of innovation at ASU, they also embody an inventive and entrepreneurial drive to bring solutions out of the lab and into the world," said Sally C. Morton, executive vice president of the ASU Knowledge Enterprise. "With their focus on developing technologies that make a difference in people's lives, they reflect the goal in our university's charter of assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities we serve." Associate Professor Erica Forzani has contributed to the dev...