On March 21, 2009, in Pittsburgh, PA, JFDP Fellows Shahin Bayramov (2008-2009, Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington), participated in the University of Pittsburgh Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference titled "The Future of the European Union: External Challenges and Internal Debates.” The Conference was joi...
January 4, 2010 marked the beginning of the 2009-2010 Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) with the start of an orientation at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. The JFDP Orientation was hosted for a fourth year by KU's Office of International Programs. The orientation served as the first opportunity to gather sixty-eight JFDP Fellows from fifteen countries across Eurasia and Southeast Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.