Taking Action on Climate Change
New Zealand Scholar Helps COA Score a First
When College of the Atlantic President David Hale committed COA to becoming the nation’s first carbon-neutral campus, Davis UWC Scholar Oliver Bruce was among those who set to work.

Making a Musical Difference
Skidmore’s Mongolian Violinist Strikes an Active Tone
When Munkhtsetseg Ayurzana was a preschooler in Mongolia’s capital of Ulan Bator, her mother saw, and heard, something special in her little girl. “My mom tells me I would put different levels of water in these cups, and play them,” says “Mugi.” Her parents, both engineers, brought their daughter to the Music and Dance School of Ulan Bator. She spent 12 years there, studying violin very seriously while she watched her country struggle through the transition from a Soviet satellite to a market economy.

Passing on the Promise
It wasn’t easy — he had to pierce a thicket of bureaucracy in his home city of Kabul to make and keep the selection a merit-based process — but Davis UWC Scholar Qiamuddin Amiry (Hong Kong UWC, Colby College ‘09) succeeded this year in delivering two new preparatory-school scholarships to fellow students from Afghanistan.

Making Dreams Work
Scholar’s Efforts Build Hope in Urban Teens
Like so many other urban communities in the U.S. and around the world, Easton, Pa., home of Lafayette College, has its population of inner-city teenagers whose futures are far from secure. Lafayette junior Felix Forster isn’t from that world — he’s a UWC-USA graduate from northeastern Germany — but he is finding ways to help local young people learn how to believe in themselves and create hope in their lives.

Taking Aim at Global Health
African Scholar Aims to Fight Boundary-Crossing Diseases
At Bates College, anthropology professor Charles Carnegie has a hunch about Emmanuel Fulgence Drabo. As the Burkina Faso native, an alumnus of UWC-USA, prepares to graduate, his mentor considers the long list of Emmanuel’s contributions to campus life, together with his ambitious thesis project — and suspects this is someone who might really move the world.

“Davis Cup” Honor Goes to Dartmouth College
35 scholars in the Dartmouth Class of 2011, Princeton yields 31The Davis Cup that Dartmouth College earned this year has nothing to do with tennis, and everything to do with building a global community of learning.

The Chance of a Lifetime
How a Tanzanian Village Boy Found the Path to a New Future
One evening in rural Tanzania, when a teenage boy named Yohanne Kidolezi came home from 12 hours in his family’s rice, corn, bean, and peanut fields, his mother handed him an oddly spelled note. It said something about Dar Es Salaam, United World College, and an interview in three days.