In March 2010, an informal consortium including all these actors- OISG, SISM, SIMM - the NGO, Doctors with Africa CUAMM, and a group of global health scholars, launched the Italian Network for Global Health Education (RIISG) [ 49].
MOSCTHA, an organization founded 25 years ago by an exiled Haitian doctor, enlisted a dynamic team of activists, artists and scholars to launch Stop Indifference.
The scholars have launched an online petition, against a backdrop of rising self-immolations by Tibetans — nearly 100 since February 2009, as my colleague Andrew Jacobs reports.
He was a German scholar who launched himself in 1933, among charming but undirected English amateurs, into the torpid field of architectural history.
A Muslim scholar has launched a groundbreaking campaign against forced marriage in Scotland.
In the 1950s, the Chinese government called scholars together to launch a large-scale social and historical investigation into ethnic minority areas.
Such concerns led Neutzner and a group of local scholars and artists to launch a project to mark the sites of Dresden's wartime wounds and crimes with tiny "memorial depots" — sealed metal capsules, two and a half inches in diameter, inscribed with a number and containing a piece of paper with a short description of what happened in each of sixty or so locations scattered around the city.
The team is launching Accel Scholars, a program to mentor a select group of electrical engineering and computer science students.
Now Cambridge, thanks to a new $210 million trust announced 11 October by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is launching a scholars' program of its own, which each year will fund at least 225 students from outside of the United Kingdom.
The brilliant scholars at the newly launched Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies, who are at the forefront of this movement, make an excellent point ― one that has already been applied successfully in the U.S. in the case of tobacco.
