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Bucharest, December 22, 2011
Volume I, Issue 12
Alumni News
From Alumni
Table of Contents
Season’s Greetings
Alumni News
► U.S. Alumni and Grantees
 Transcript for Q&A Live Discussion on
“Volunteerism: Sharing the Spirit of Service
 New Publications by U.S. Fulbright Alumna
Tracey S. Rosenberg
 Remember the #StateAlumni Hashtag!
 Continuous Collaboration between Roma-
 State Alumni Research Center
nian and U.S. Alumni
 Follow State Alumni on Facebook
 Donation Ceremony at the Center for
American Studies, University of Bucharest
From Alumni
 News from U.S. Fulbright Alumna Kathleen
► Romanian Alumni and Grantees
Laraia McLaughlin
 The Institute of Strategic Studies – Launching
Event
Alumni Information
 Dr. Rodica Mihăilă - Testimonies of Romanians
who are Making a Difference
Alumni Links
 Welcome Home to the Teaching Excellence and
Achievement Program Grantees
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3. Bucharest, December 22, 2011
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Alumni News
Transcript for Q&A Live Discussion on “Volunteerism: Sharing the Spirit of Service
On December 5, 2011, Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet
joined the State Alumni for a Q&A Live discussion on “Volunteerism: Sharing the
Spirit of Service.” Last October, Hessler-Radelet shared her inspiring personal
and family history of volunteering with participants of the IVLP project on “The
Spirit of Volunteerism: Honoring 50 Years of the Peace Corps.” Building on the
volunteerism theme, this webchat took place on UN International Volunteer
Day to allow alumni to share their experiences, best practices, and inspire each
other to promote volunteerism in their communities. The transcript of this dis-
cussion is available at https://alumni.state.gov/news2/qa-live/qa-live/
volunteerism:-sharing-the-spirit-of-service.
Remember the #StateAlumni Hashtag!
Remember to use #StateAlumni to tweet about and promote your next
alumni activity and remind alumni to do the same. Not only does an active
stream help monitor and support alumni activities; more importantly, it in-
spires alumni to remain active in their countries and contribute to the posi-
tive impact of the dynamic, global alumni network to which they be-
long. Follow this stream by logging on to the State Alumni website and
viewing the Twitter feed on the homepage.
State Alumni Research Center
The Research Center offers access to more than 20,000 full-text
periodicals from the following databases: EBSCOHost Academic
Search™ Premier, EBSCOHost Science & Technology Collection™,
Gale Cengage Learning™ Academic OneFile and General OneFile,
Gale Cengage Learning™ USSD, and ProQuest eLibrary®.
Visit the Research Center at https://alumni.state.gov/online-resources/online-research-center.
Follow State Alumni on Facebook
Follow the most recent alumni news from all over the world by clicking on the
State Alumni Facebook page:
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4. Bucharest, December 22, 2011
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From Alumni
► Romanian Alumni and Grantees
The Institute of Strategic Studies – Launching Event
Dr. Marius Profiroiu, Fulbright Senior Alumnus 2010-2011 and a Professor of
Public Policy and Administration at Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies has
informed us about the launch of the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS), a think
tank promoting the experts’ civic involvement and participation in decisions to
influence the Romania’s future. ISS aims to make a contribution to the initiation,
coordination and structuring of public policies at national level.
The launching event, took place at Marriot Hotel, Bucharest, on December 15
and hosted the debate entitled The Reform and the Crisis of the Public Sector in
Romania: What Is Next?, addressing the latest trends on performance of the
public system within the new economic and social context.
Dr. Profiroiu emphasizes that an important contribution to this project was
brought by several academics from Martin School of Public Policy and Administration (his host university
during the Fulbright stage) who encouraged and supported him to put these ideas into practice. We are
also glad to notice that Dr. Calin Hintea, a Fulbright Senior Alumnus and a professor at Babes-Bolyai
University of Cluj, is among the ISS initiators.
Dr. Rodica Mihăilă - Testimonies of Romanians who are Making a Difference
Dr. Rodica Mihăilă, Romanian Fulbright alumna, founder of the American Studies
Department at the University of Bucharest and professor of American Literature and
Civilization at the University, was featured on the U.S. Embassy’s website in the
Remarkable Romanians section. To see her profile, please follow the link below.
http://romania.usembassy.gov/policy/map/rodica-mihaila.html
Welcome Home to the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program Grantees
Diana Melian, Mihaela Fodor and Radu Velica, Teaching
Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) fellows finished
their programs in U.S. and returned home. At the end of the
program they got together in Washington, DC where they
received their TEA diplomas and met Mr. Adrian Tudorache,
representative of the Embassy of Romania in U.S.A.
The end of the program festivity was also an occasion for the
Romanian “HORA” to be presented in a multinational
enviroment. The traditional folk dance was initiated by the
Romanian fellows and joined by grantees from different parts
of the world. Please follow the link below for the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5qQQQIroh0
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5. Bucharest, December 22, 2011
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From Alumni
► U.S. Alumni and Grantees
New Publications by U.S. Fulbright Alumna Tracey S. Rosenberg
Tracey S. Rosenberg, U.S. Fulbright scholar to Romania in 1999-2000 published a novel
entitled The Girl in the Bunker (Cargo Publishing, 2011). The novel retells the story of
Hitler's bunker from the perspective of Joseph Goebbels's twelve-year-old daughter.
More details about the book are available at: http://www.cargopublishing.com/the-girl-
in-the-bunker/.
Also, a short story written during Tracey’s Fulbright year in Romania and entitled Lizards
is available for e-readers at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lizards-ebook/dp/B006HIQVYI/.
The story is about a young Jewish writer in Communist Romania who tries to support
her family and her boyfriend, while struggling to write poetry she knows the regime will never let her
publish. For more details about Tracey’s work, you may follow her blog at: http://
tsrosenberg.wordpress.com.
Continuous Collaboration between Romanian and U.S. Alumni
Fulbright alumnus Sandu Frunză published, in 2010, the book Dumnezeu şi Holocaustul la Elie Wiesel: O
etică a responsabilităţii (God and the Holocaust according to Elie Wiesel: An ethic of responsibility)
(Bucharest, Romania: Editura Contemporanul). It has recently been reviewed by another Fulbright
alumnus, Michael S. Jones, in Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies 1:1,
http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal/.
Donation Ceremony at the Center for American Studies,
University of Bucharest
On December 7, U.S. Fulbright Scholar Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
made a donation of her book Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions
to the American Studies Program, University of Bucharest. The
donation ceremony was organized by Dr. Rodica Mihăilă, Romanian
Fulbright alumna, director and founder of the Center for American
Studies at the University of Bucharest. The event was attended by
many students and professors from the university.
News from U.S. Fulbright Alumna Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin
On November 18-19, Kathleen attended the Society for Photographic Education
West Regional Conference. She met with fellow photo educators, photo students,
and presented a lecture on her book, The Color of Hay, keeping in line with the
conference theme of Survival. She focused on what life has been like in the area
where she lived during her Fulbright grant in northern Transylvania, and how sur-
viving is about keeping up with farming practices, inflation, and fashion (both
clothing and interior decorating).
Also, on December 15 she gave a public lecture at the Cleveland Park Neighbor-
hood Library in Washington D.C., sponsored through the library and the Romanian
Embassy in U.S.A.
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