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Skip to content Home » Southeast Asian Student Success Initiative recruiting first cohort of Bulldog Scholars Southeast Asian Student Success Initiative recruiting first cohort of Bulldog Scholars Bulldog Scholars is a new program at Fresno State, committed to supporting Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and Southeast Asian students during their freshman year at the university. The program, housed within the university’s Southeast Asian Student Success Initiative, will equip students with resources, mentorship and personalized support to help them successfully navigate university life and achieve their goals.  “The program offers workshops focused on effective study strategies, time management…

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Navy veteran Joseph “Jay” Ventress now looks back on his Vietnam War service — including two tours on the aircraft carrier USS Constellation as a baker and cook — differently than he has in the past. His change of perspective came from his recent participation as one of 70 honored veterans on the 30th Central Valley Honor Flight, a three-day trip to Washington, D.C., to visit war memorials and military sites with other veterans. Many veterans come home from wartime with survivor’s guilt. Ventress talked about how bad he felt that some soldiers didn’t make it home from Vietnam while…

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Join the Love & Lemons Cooking Club Challenge this month! It’s easy to enter, and one lucky winner will receive a prize. Find all the details below. Our Cooking Club is a fun way to celebrate the Love & Lemons community of readers. The concept is super simple—each month, I choose a recipe. You make it, and you leave a comment on the recipe’s blog post. At the end of the month, I randomly select one winner to receive a prize.I love the sense of community that comes from so many people cooking one recipe each month. We’re kicking off…

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The future military specialists will have much more opportunities for physical training. Military Sports Specialized Colleges named after Tigran Metz and after Aram Manukyan were furnished with modern sports equipment, gyms were renovated and heating system was installed. In order to organize transportation of students from home to the educational institution and back, 3 buses were also provided to military sports institutions. The program was implemented thanks to the financing from the benefactor Karen Vardanyan. The total budget amounted to 119 million drams.   Source link

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Even though my kids are not yet on summer break and even though I, as an adult, do not have a thing called a summer break, I’ve apparently helped myself to one. I’m sneaking off to the beach on weekdays (oops), reading novels, gorging myself on cherries and crisp-from-the-market cucumbers, playing midday tennis like a lady who lunches, and getting vexed when I receive work-related emails and texts. [“Alex, why are they texting me on a Sunday?” “Deb, it’s Tuesday.”] I went to the small Greenmarket in my neighborhood yesterday with no plan except to buy more cucumbers and cherries…

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