Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke on Tuesday (July 20)
welcomes 18 students from 12 countries in the Middle East, including
from left, Carla Khazzoum, Syria, 18; Renad Hikmat Dawoud, West Bank,
17; and Dina Zbeidy, Israel, 17. The students are in the United States
as part of the 2004 Summer Institute on American Life and Youth
Leadership, which is based at Purdue. On the right are Donald
Mitchell, director of the institute and Purdue philosophy professor,
and Peter M. Benda, a representative of the U.S. Department of State.
The institute participants, all recent high school graduates, will be
in the United States through Aug. 22 to learn firsthand about American
political, social, cultural and economic life. (Purdue News Service
photo/David Umberger)
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