Hiram College receives grant to develop program with Pakistan: Higher Education Roundup

Hiram College has received a grant to develop programs with Pakistan to study the international water crisis.

(Hiram College )

HIRAM, Ohio - Hiram College will form what it calls "non-traditional partnerships among American and Pakistani high schools, universities, local community partners and government agencies," with a grant from the U.S. State Department.

The program to address the international water crisis is a collaboration with Case Western Reserve University, the Shoals Marine Laboratory in New Hampshire and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

The $492,309 grant for "Public Diplomacy Programs for Afghanistan and Pakistan" is the largest federal grant the Portage County college has received.

Cleveland-area and Pakistani high school students and teachers will spend several weeks together in learning communities, exploring ways to address the water crisis is an international twist on the Igniting Streams of Learning in Science program that biology professor Denny Taylor has coordinated since 2007, the college said.

The grant will fund the program from October 2014 through May 2016.

"The program is based on the principle that high school students become more connected with themselves, with one another and with the world at large when they explore real-world problems and when their discoveries make a difference," Taylor said in a press release.

The high school students will spend nine days at Hiram, five days at CWRU and five days at the marine laboratory in the summer of 2015. Several Hiram College and Pakistani undergraduates will travel with the students to each site.

The students will put together a plan to teach to their peers back home. They will continue to meet virtually through fall and winter 2015.

Co-op and internship fairs at universities: University of Akron and Cleveland State University students will have opportunities this week to find internships, co-ops and jobs.

More than 180 companies will be at a UA campus career fair for an engineering and science career fair on Tuesday and 146 employers will be at an all-campus career fair on Wednesday.

The all-campus career fair includes workshops and an area where students can have professional digital photographs taken for free.

The Monte Ahuja College of Business at CSU will host its first Business Internship and Co-op Expo on Thursday.

Representatives from more than 20 of Northeast Ohio's top employers will attend.

Many companies are also interested in speaking with non-business majors, CSU said.

CSU offers students more than 2,600 internship and co-op opportunities at nearly every major corporation and organization in Greater Cleveland. It will hold a Government Career Day on Oct. 22.

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