Sergey Moyseyenko, 36, of Port Washington is the winner of Stony Brook’s News Literacy essay competition for the fall semester. Using the metaphor of a journey, he guided his uncle through the steps to take when seeking reliable information and then summed up with an extension of the metaphor, reminding his uncle that he is not a passenger but the driver in control of the journey.
The Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook’s School of Journalism is pleased to present the annual Marie Colvin Lecture, as part of the My Life As Speaker Series. This year’s speaker is David Rohde, the Online News Director at The New Yorker and former foreign correspondent for The New York Times. In 2008, Rohde was.
In 2012, while working on a story about war criminals in Belgrade, Serbia, I got a devastating early morning phone call: my colleague and friend Marie Colvin was dead, killed by Bashar al-Assad’s bombs in Homs, Syria. Her roller-coaster life is captured in a new film, A Private War, currently in theaters.
Providing scholarship opportunities and financial aid are ideal ways for churches and religious organizations to show their commitment to helping its members go to college. Religious organizations sponsor a variety of national, regional, and local scholarships. Below are links to the most common religious scholarships in our database.
Calvin University is a world-class Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Here, you will discover a bold, transformative education that’s grounded in Christian conviction. Be inspired by innovation, leadership, and artistic expression. Be challenged to respond to the world’s needs. Since 1876, Calvin has lived into Christ’s.
The Berlin Wall—symbol of a divided city within a divided nation within a divided continent—was grounded in decades-old historical divisions at the end of World War II. In August 1961, the German Democratic Republic began to construct the Berlin Wall. At first it was barbed wire, but soon it expanded into a 5 meter high 165 kilometer long.