FLEX Alumni Russia Mentoring Program: Second Cycle Launch
The FLEX Alumni Russia Mentoring program launched the second round of a six-month-long mentoring program aimed to connecting senior and junior FLEX alumni in...
Business Leader Sergey Kulyagin ‘97: ‘International experience got me through the door –...
‘FLEX was the springboard experience of my life. It exposed me to the side of my personality which I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise –...
Food for Thought
Natalia Zhikina ‘01
North Schuykill, PA/St. Petersburg, Russia
North-West Academy of Public Administration, St. Petersburg
From the pictures of her 2001 FLEX year in North Schuykill, PA,...
A Host Mother’s Reflection on Hosting
By Jane Kipp Scott (Julesburg, CO / Host mother to Fidar Bedoshvili '10)
I have never been the type of person to write about anything...
International Exchange at a Glance, or All Roads Lead to… UlaanBaatar!
Olga Bukach '04
Vladivostok, Russia/Smyrna, DE
completelycrazy bukach gmail com
I’m a teacher, and, therefore, I’m a bit weird. I don’t like to be...
Galya Palieva ’94: a Personal Testimony
Being a pioneer isn’t easy- that much has always been true. The lens through which we see our surroundings, a lens often characterized by...
Save a Book Project FLEX 20$ Challenge Project
In Arkhangelsk, Russia on September 12, Arkhangelsk City Representative Yevgeniy Lapin ’13 supported by four alumni from Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk organized the project Save...
FLEX Experience Taught Me to Voice My Point of View
Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev '98
Memphis, TN & Killen, AL/Russia
Education:
-Kirov State Medical Academy (Kirov, the Russian Federation); Medical Doctor; Internal Medicine
-Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands); MSc...
GYSD Russia: Recycle Bucket Challenge
Project organizer: Dmitry Makarov '06 (Monchegorsk, Slippery Rock, PA)Event Location: St Petersburg, RussiaProject partners: Eco-movement ‘Musora.Bolshe.Net’ and FLEX alumni
On 28 Aug Dmitry Makarov conducted a...
In Memory of Senator Richard Lugar and Memories from Meetings with FLEX Alumni
Senator Richard Lugar, a foremost voice on U.S. foreign policy during his 36 years of service in the U.S. Senate and co-creator of the...