On November 15, the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Letters (FLUL) opened a brand new expanded American Corner space on the ground floor of the library at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Letters. The new space was jointly inaugurated by Ambassador George Glass and Dean Farmhouse Alberto, and is located in one of the ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: american spaces, education
As part of our ongoing partnership with Nova University’s Faculty of Science and Technology through the American Corner program, on June 7, the Chargé d’Affaires Herro Mustafa awarded the first prize to the winning team of the 2017 edition of the FCT NOVA Challenge – powered by U.S. Embassy. FCT NOVA Challenge – powered by ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 7 June, 2017 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: american spaces, education, exchanges, S&T
On June 5, as part of our ongoing partnership with Nova University’s Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT) through the American Corner program, the Chargé d’Affaires Herro Mustafa visited FCT and gave a talk entitled “Pursuing the American Dream”. Ms. Mustafa spoke about her life story beginning as a child refugee from Iraqi-Kurdistan who came ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 5 June, 2017 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: american spaces, education, exchanges, S&T
The U.S. Embassy has invited NASA planetary scientist Jared Espley to visit Portugal between April 17 and 21 for a series of presentations on “Exploring Jupiter and its moons.” With a PhD in Physics from Rice University, in Houston, Jared Espley works at the Planetary Magnetospheres Lab at NASA Goddard and at NASA Headquarters he ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 12 April, 2017 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: american spaces, NASA, space
Herro Mustafa, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, inaugurated the newly renovated American Corner space at the
University of the Azores . This space, at the university’s library, provides new resources to be used by students. This was her third official visit to São Miguel and the second as Chargé. On the occasion Ms. Mustafa noted that the ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 23 March, 2017 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: american spaces, Azores, education
On December 12 and 13, the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Herro Mustafa traveled to the North of Portugal for a series of engagements. As part of the program, the DCM gave a talk at the secondary school of Povoa de Lanhoso for 11th graders on “The Refugees in the current multicultural world”. Ms. Mustafa ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 13 December, 2016 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: american spaces, refugees
On October 28, Nova University’s
Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT-Nova) inaugurated the “FCT Fab Lab – Powered by U.S. Embassy” as an expansion of the American Corners program at FCT-NOVA. The Fab Lab concept was developed at MIT through a course named “How to do (almost) anything,” and Labs consist of a set of digital fabrication tools for rapid ...
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By U.S. Mission Portugal | 28 October, 2016 | Topics: American Spaces, Events, News | Tags: american spaces
