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Miami University: A Journey Through Project Dragonfly’s Latin America

Project Dragonfly’s Earth Expeditions immerses graduate students in Latin American ecosystems through community-based conservation field courses in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, blending ecological research, cultural exchange, and local partnerships to transform participants into globally connected environmental leaders committed to collaborative, people-centered sustainability.

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Did you know? Mysteries in Stone: Ancient Sites in Latin America

Ancient stone sites across Latin America reveal the ingenuity, spirituality, and enduring mysteries of past civilizations. From monumental cities in the Andes to remote jungle settlements and enigmatic cave systems, these places connect landscape, legend, and archaeology, inviting us to rethink history, culture, and humanity’s relationship with stone.

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Higher Education Institution Launches 18-Month Part-time Online MBA Program, One of the Fastest in Greater Boston

Bentley University has launched a part-time accelerated online MBA program that allows students to earn their degree in as little as 18 months, one of the fastest part-time MBA degrees in Greater Boston. Bentley's new accelerated part-time MBA offers an adaptable class schedule, with all courses available online, and includes the option of intensive courses on weekends. Classes meet once a week and students can pursue a concentration in leadership designed to prepare them for high-level management roles. The online learning environment brings together a diverse group of students from different cultures and professional backgrounds, training students to collaborate on diverse teams that mirror today's global marketplace.

Arts and Media February 2011

Patricia Zavella: Exceptional Teacher, First-Rate Scholar, Committed Activist <b> Clay Latimer </b>

As chair of Latin American and Latino studies, Professor Patricia Zavella is charged with making things run smoothly in her department at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC). But her job doesn’t end on the picturesque campus, nestled in the redwood forests and meadows overlooking Monterey Bay. Zavella spends much of her time in another part of the county – another world, really – the migrant labor neighborhoods in nearby Watsonville. For a decade, the acclaimed cultural anthropologist interviewed and observed migrant people for her forthcoming book, I’m Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty.

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Arts and Media February 2011

Literature an Enduring Passion for Professor Ester González <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was an ordinary day for most students at Johns Hopkins University. Classes, exams, meetings – the routine routine. But there was nothing mundane about it for Ester Gimbernat González, a young, ambitious literature student from Argentina. Filled with anticipation, she stepped for the first time into the campus library, a vast place where every section was lined with books she wanted to read or catch up on. “When the doors opened, I was so happy, I couldn’t leave,” she said. “I was in heaven.”

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Hispanic Community March 2011

University of Illinois at Chicago’s Luis Alberto Urrea: From Despair to Acclaim, <b> Clay Latimer </b>

It was February 1982 and Luis Alberto Urrea, 26-year-old University of California- San Diego graduate, was doing full-time relief work with shanty dwellers in Tijuana’s wretched city dump. Surrounded by surreal squalor during the day, Urrea slept on relatives’ couches in Southern California at night, broke and depressed and worried about his future. Desperate to start over, Urrea wrote Lowry Pei, his college writing instructor who was now at Harvard, and asked for help.

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