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Manne also weighed in on a New York Times story covering the recent European Commission ruling against Intel.  Manne’s specialty areas include law and economics, antitrust issues, intellectual property, and corporate and international economic regulation. Manne previously served as a law and economics specialist for Microsoft and currently serves as director of LeCG, a global expert services and consulting firm.

Khan, a computer science and mathematics major, was born in Afghanistan, but he moved to Pakistan with his family in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet-backed regime. In his scholarship entry, Khan described the experience of living as a refugee and observing his parents break down barriers between the Afghan and Pakistani communities through education.

Khan’s devotion to education inspired him to study languages and computers, and eventually earned him a position with Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian aid organization based in Portland. After traveling widely as a field system administrator for Mercy Corps, Khan decided to pursue a college education.

At Lewis & Clark, Khan has continued his study of technology, while still working part-time for Mercy Corps.

“Because of his extensive international education, talents and skills, life experiences, international perspectives, and passionate commitment to help others, Mahmood will most certainly make a difference in our world,” said Carolyn Locke, administrative coordinator for the International Students and Scholars Office and Khan’s sponsor for the scholarship competition.

Khan plans to pursue a post-graduate degree in computer science and mathematics, with the ultimate goal of integrating his studies and his relief work to increase awareness of global humanitarian need.

“I believe that my study in those fields will help me prepare for my goal of teaching and promoting the use of technology in poor countries in more creative and affordable ways,” he wrote. “I hope that one day I will be able to use technology to make more people aware of the extreme hardships that exist in our world and also to make it more accessible and easier for those willing to help to reach those in need.”

Read Khan’s essay and learn more about LewerMark online.

In a recent LA Times article about interrogation memos written in 2002 and recently released by the Obama Administration, Parry, offered his views on the legal justifications outlined in the memos.  Parry has written extensively about torture, including Understanding Torture: Law, Culture, and State Violence which is soon to be published by University of Michigan Press.

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Dede received a research award from the Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, which is supported by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES).  In addition, Dede received an institutional award from the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) program. This latter program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and provides fellowships for faculty members to conduct research overseas in the fields of modern language and area studies for  three to 12 months.  The terms of the awards stipulate that Dede cannot accept both fellowships, so he is in the enviable position of having to decide between the two.

Dede’s research project is titled “Contact and Change in the Chinese Dialects of Qinghai.” Four months in China will allow Dede to gather naturalistic speech samples from native speakers of Qinghai Chinese dialects, train local researchers in language-gathering and documentation techniques, and work with local scholars on the social history of northeastern Qinghai to further elucidate the historical language-contact scenario and subsequent evolution that created the mixed language phenomenon there today. Generally, this will allow for the testing of theories of language evolution.

According to a recent article in The National Law Journal, the national Crime Victims Rights Act is being used more and more frequently in environmental court cases. The growing trend has some legal experts questioning the validity of this legal maneuver, arguing that it is not the established intent of the Crime Victims Rights Act. Garvin, executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, countered that the environment is not the only thing compromised in environmental violations. “Individual victims are suffering greatly from environmental crimes,” Garvin said.  “We have to find a way to make them whole. Having that happen in the criminal justice system makes sense because that process is already under way.”

The National Law Journal Is Crime Victims Rights Law Being Misused in Environmental Cases?

In April, the premier issue of Ecopsychology was launched online. Doherty, editor-in-chief, believes this online journal will offer psychological solutions through the use of ecological psychotherapy.  “Ecopsychology will raise provocative questions about consciousness, identity, health, and ethical living,” he said. “The role of the journal is to foreground these questions and create a space for dialog.”

Ecopsychology places psychology and mental health disciplines in an ecological context and recognizes the links between human health, culture, and the health of the planet. With its groundbreaking and diverse collaboration of psychotherapists, social science researchers and contributors from other environmental-related fields, Ecopsychology is the only peer-reviewed journal of its kind.

Doherty developed the ecopsychology studies program at Lewis & Clark and runs his own private practice.

Read an interview in The Oregonian featuring Doherty discussing ecopsychology.