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Heritage Program Invites Greek American Students for Summer in Greece
Dozens of Greek American students will be visiting Greece in the summer through the Heritage Greece Program run by the National Hellenic Society (NHS).
NHS announced that the application deadline is March 30 for two life-changing trips to Greece. The...
Education
Greece Climbs in Rankings as a Top Destination for American Students
A growing number of American students are choosing Greece as a destination for study, according to the Open Doors 2023 survey findings, published annually by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
Greece moved up in the global rankings and is...
Education
PanHellenic Foundation to Award Scholarships to 45 Greek American Students in Annual Gala
Forty-five young Greek American students who have the potential to become life-long significant achievers will be awarded scholarships by the PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation at a ceremony and gala slated for June 17th at Hilton Chicago.
Dedicated to promoting education and...
Diaspora
Greek American Students Get Taste of Greece Through Heritage Program
Dozens of Greek American students are visiting Greece through the Heritage Greece Program, a two-week cultural and educational odyssey that connects them to their Hellenic roots.
The first group of Greek American students arrived on June 10 and the second...
Life
1 in 4 US High School Students Identifies as LGBTQ
One in every four high school students has a non-heterosexual sexual orientation, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) biannual Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey.
The report, which used data from 2021, stated...
Culture
Students Read ‘Odyssey’ at National Hellenic Museum’s ‘Homerathon’
The National Hellenic Museum and the University of Illinois Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies co-hosted Homerathon: A Reading of Homer's Odyssey.
The public reading of all 24 books of the epic poem spanned 13 hours on Friday and Saturday...
Education
US Students Prove Pythagorean Theorem In “Impossible” Way
American students have proven the famous theorem of the great ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras in an "impossible" way.
Diaspora
DreamWakers: Inspiring and Mentoring Disadvantaged Students in the US
DreamWakers, co-founded by Greek-American Monica Logothetis, connects students from low-income families across the US to career role models.
Business
The Bitcoin Experiment that Made MIT Students Rich
In 2014, MIT students Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer conducted an experiment where they gave any interested MIT student $100 worth of Bitcoin worth roughly $300 a coin at the time. The $100 worth of bitcoin those lucky students...
Diaspora
Greek President Meets with Greek-American Students
Greek-American students who have been traveling to Greece and Cyprus met on Tuesday the President of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
Greek News
Community Supports Greek Students in Virginia Who Escaped Fire
Greek students and siblings Andrea Zourou and Stratos Zouros narrowly escaped the flames after their condominium in Virginia caught fire on Thursday.
Diaspora
Greek-American Students Receive Mentoring from Top US Policymakers
The National Hellenic Society in Washington, DC recently held their 5th Annual Heritage America Program virtually for high-achieving and promising Greek-American students.
The event, which was hosted from July 8-10, 2020, included a series of online discussions that featured a...
Education
Foreign Students in the US Face Deportation if Classes Go Online
US immigration authorities said on Monday that foreign students attending U.S. colleges that will operate entirely online this fall semester cannot remain in the country.
"Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country...
Diaspora
Scholarships Offered to Greek-American Students Who Can Best Describe the Term “Philotimo”
The Oxi Day Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., is now offering scholarships to five Greek-American students in grades 6-12 who can best describe the difficult-to-translate Greek term “philotimo.”
Philotimo is a Greek noun which is sometimes translated as "love of honor."...
Education
US Business Students Immerse Themselves in Greece’s Business Culture
Over the last decade, Tatiana Kolovou, a senior lecturer in business
communications, has taken about 300 Kelley School undergraduates and MBA students of the University of Indiana to Greece as part of immersion courses about the country, its economy and...