Presidents, prime ministers, royalty and even religious figures – they’ve all made the pilgrimage to the Brookings, mother of all think tanks. And so has the latest group of Next Generation students and interns who gathered at the Brookings Institution with Managing Director William Antholis, as he took us again [...]
Who wouldn’t want to see how a major broadcast news program works – and hear how a network correspondent covers the news? This class gave a group of twenty next generation students a chance to watch a live evening news program being broadcast — and meet a working news correspondent [...]
A Master Class with the 13th President of New York University, former Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives and ten-term U.S. Congressman John Brademas.
Another Master Class inside the gleaming high-tech headquarters of the Athens Stock Exchange — this time over an informal lunch in the Exchange’s boardroom with the affable Spyros Capralos, CEO and President of the Athens Exchange (and incoming president of Greece’s Olympic Committee). After a quick overview of the Exchange and its history, capitalization, [...]
Nearly 2.5 billion of Earth’s people live on less than $2 a day, and more than 1 billion suffer from chronic hunger. Leading the efforts of the world’s largest foundation to help the world’s poorest people overcome extreme poverty and hunger is Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President of Global Development Programs for the Bill [...]
A year ago the financial world was in freefall, in the midst of a global economic meltdown that many feared was leading the world to the brink of another Depression. What was it like to be in the middle of it all, reporting every day to the world from Wall [...]
More than 200 students joined us in Boston for the final pre-election installment in our special election-year series of conversations with political insiders, movers and shakers — an intriguing, informal conversation with former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. Gov. Dukakis offered his election-eve thoughts and predictions [...]
A hardy group of political junkies braved torrential rains to join us for a chance to grill one of the capital’s premier journalists, when we sat down after work for a conversation with the fascinating Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of the famed Washington Monthly – the “maverick” magazine that was talking [...]
In our very first Master Class — with the legendary inventor, entrepreneur and founder of high-tech giant Thermo Electron Corporation, Dr. George Hatsopoulos, in his labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — students from MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Tufts and Wellseley were enthralled with Dr. Hatsopoulos’ account of how [...]
A visit at the American Film Institute with the award-winning film director Maria Iliou in conjunction with the Washington, DC premiere of her moving documentary, The Journey: The Greek American Dream.
7,000 students on more than 200 campuses across America are being invited to to give back to their communities, through the Greeks Give Back Challenge. Do you have an idea for a new project that will create positive change on your campus, or in your community? Enter the Next Generation National Student Competition.
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