Zak Ebrahim Biography Zak Ebrahim was born in Pittsburgh, Penn. in 1983, the son of an Egyptian industrial engineer and an American school teacher. When Ebrahim was seven, his father shot and killed the founder of the Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane. From behind bars his father, El-Sayyid Nosair, co-masterminded the 1993 bombing of …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—On Oct. 5, 1922, six nurses from the Indiana University Training School for Nurses in Indianapolis, Ind. founded an academic honor society. They named it Sigma Theta Tau, from the Greek words for “love, courage and honor.” Its mission was to advance world health and celebrate nursing excellence in scholarship, leadership and …
FULL STORYNEW ALBANY, Ind. — The son of the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing comes to IU Southeast with a message of peace. “We must embrace tolerance and nonviolence,” Zak Ebrahim said. “Who knows this better than the son of a terrorist?” Ebrahim, author of “The Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice,” will speak …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Meriwether Lewis and William Clark shook hands on Sunday, Oct. 2 at IU Southeast. Or rather, re-enactors Jan Donaldson and Peyton “Bud” Clark (great-great-great grandson of the explorer), playing the roles of Lewis and Clark, performed the handshake. With that symbolic act, the two men honored the donation to IU …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–“Print Matters, Printing Matters,” the 2016 conference of the Mid-America Print Council, will be hosted by IU Southeast and the University of Louisville from Wednesday, Oct. 5, to Saturday, Oct. 8, on the two campuses, with IU Southeast serving as the event’s home base. The conference, supported by Indiana University’s …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–For the second straight year, Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) brought high school, middle school and even some adult students from refugee backgrounds to the IU Southeast campus last Saturday, Sept. 24 for a special college preparatory event. The Super Saturday College and Career Readiness Program introduces future collegians to academic …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The final countdown has begun for this year’s School of Business Golf Scramble, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 30 at Champions Pointe Golf Club in Henryville, Ind. The Golf Scramble has been a fixture on the campus calendar for 20 years, giving students a chance to mingle with faculty and local …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—A poster by Kok Cheow Yeoh, assistant professor of fine arts and graphic design area coordinator, has been accepted as a finalist at the Beijing Design Week in Beijing, China. The poster was one of only 272 finalists chosen for exhibition from among more than 1,200 submissions from around the …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–It was February in the Kom region of northwestern Cameroon, the height of the dry season, and the red dirt road baked in 100-degree equatorial heat. The Toyota Highlander danced across the dusty ruts, tracking ever deeper into the countryside. The road led through forests, snaked up hills, wound along …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The city of Kostanay, in the Central Asian republic of Kazhakstan, is a long way from New Albany—5,882 miles as the jet flies. But Morgan Szabo ’14 can trace a line from her first international studies class at IU Southeast to the first day she spent in Kostanay, teaching young …
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