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Purdue welcomes students from Middle East
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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