Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Feniosky Peña-Mora

Country of origin: Dominican Republic

Feniosky Peña-Mora is a Dominican born engineer, educator, and the 14th Dean of Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Formerly the Associate Provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he has an international reputation for his teaching, research, and leadership in managing engineering programs at world-renowned universities. He is also Columbia University's Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering in the Departments of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Computer Science. Peña-Mora's appointment to one of the top posts in the Ivy League school has garnered much sensationalism in his home country Dominican Republic, and he has been headlined as the country's prodigy son.


To read more about Feniosky Peña-Mora, read his page on Wikipedia, or read this article at the New York Times.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Teen Immigrants: Five American Stories

Instead of focusing on a single person today, I'd like to share the stories of five immigrants:

Their experiences are real, their emotions sincere. In "Teen Immigrants: Five American Stories", you'll get to know five young people seeking the "American Dream": Anton, from Russia; Luincys, from the Dominican Republic; Mohammed, from Guinea, West Africa; Fatima, of Indian descent, from Tanzania; and Michael, from China.


Excerpt from this link. To see a transcript of the program, visit this link.