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PodcastsStarted in 2001 through the support of the Corporation, Makerere University in Uganda as been offering scholarships to women from disadvantaged backgrounds in an effort increase enrolment and retention of female students, primarily in the sciences. Over the years, the Corporation has made a total investment of over $4 million in the program, benefiting 691 young women of whom more than 450 have graduated to date. On April 23rd, grantee Catherine Kanabahita from the university's Gender Mainstream Division spoke to Corporation staff about the progress of the Female Scholarship Initiative and about gender issues still to be faced in Uganda. A professional journalist, Kanabahita was previously a communications consultant for nongovernmental organizations and gender adviser to the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Uganda.
Listen to Carnegie Scholar Stephen Ansolabehere and colleagues discussing voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting and election administration reform within the democratic process. The talk was moderated by Carnegie Corporation’s Geri Mannion.
Stephen Ansolabehere is a professor of government at Harvard and served as a co-director of the CatlTech/MIT Voting Project, established in the wake of the 2000 Presidential election to evaluate the reliability and US voting systems and to propose uniform guidelines and requirements. He is an expert on elections, democracy, and the mass media. Nathaniel Persily, a professor of law and political science at Columbia University, is a nationally recognized expert on election law and a frequent practitioner and media commentator in the field. He is also the founder and director of the Center on Law and Politics at Columbia Law School. Persily's scholarship focuses on American election law and issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance and redistricting. Wendy R. Weiser directs the NYU Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice’s work on voting rights and elections. During the run-up to the 2004 and 2006 elections, She masterminded litigation and advocacy efforts that kept hundreds of thousands of voters from being disenfranchised. She is a frequent public speaker and media contributor on election reform issues. Carnegie Corporation Hosts Breakfast for
Hans Blix
Carnegie Corporation Hosts Forum on Challenges of Iraq On October 2, 2007, in conjunction with the Boston Review, Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation and John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Association co-hosted a Carnegie Forum on Iraq. The discussion, was the second in a two-part series entitled, "The Challenges in Iraq" which combines the important work that the Boston Review has published on the war in Iraq with the John F. Kennedy Library's capacity to convene public and private conversations about important policy issues. The Carnegie Forums comprise an occasional series of working luncheons and roundtable discussions that focus on national and international issues. An essential component of these events are the comments and questions from the audience of academic and policy leaders, foundation colleagues and journalists.
Reflections
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