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Thomas
Bojko is the Director of College
Counseling for the Global Leader Program.
Mr. Bojko has an M.A. in Education from Columbia
University and for the past several years
he was a highly sought after admissions counselor
in Tokyo, Japan. A man of wide interests,
he has also lived and worked in Hanoi, Vietnam
and conducted research on crime in Papua
New Guinea. While living in Japan, Mr. Bojko
wrote a weekly column for the Arts section
of the Japan Times newspaper and
his experience interviewing his subjects
greatly influenced his counseling style.
In early 2009, Mr. Bojko will publish a book
of narrative non-fiction on his experience
in Papua New Guinea. (The film & television
rights to the story were optioned by a major
film producer in Hollywood). This book will
be illustrated by the internationally acclaimed
musician and artist Bill Laswell. In addition
to his book on Papua New Guinea, Mr. Bojko
has also spent the past five years researching
and writing the authorized biography of Mr.
Laswell. This work has afforded him the opportunity
to interview dozens of subjects, many quite
famous and influential, while traveling throughout
the world. Education, broadly conceived,
is Mr. Bojko’s highest priority and he views
counseling and writing to be different means
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Barrington S. Edwards, a native of Washington, D.C., U.S.A., is a teacher of history and curriculum specialist for the Global Leader Program. He received his Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University in 2001, and served as a 2001-2002 Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard. He is formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African American Studies & Research Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002-2005). More recently, he served as an Interim Dean of Instruction (Arts and Science) at the City Colleges of Chicago (Malcolm X College), an Associate Dean of Instruction (Harold Washington College) (2005-2008), and a part-time Instructor and 2007-2008 Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago.
His scholarly work examines how W.E.B. Du Bois’ contribution to the social sciences laid the foundation for contemporary challenges to the biological theories of race. His most recent publication on this topic appears as an article in the Fall 2006 issue of Du Bois Review (a Cambridge University Press journal). His primary academic areas include history of American medicine and history of modern biology. Dr. Edwards graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1992. He received a master’s degree in African and African-American Studies at Cornell University in 1995.
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Steven
K. Feldman is a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English and political science. He has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from George Mason University. He taught writing and literature at George Mason University, Culver Military Academy/Culver Girls’ Academy in Culver, Indiana, and at Harrisburg Academy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His American teaching experience includes AP English and Honors English. He also was a varsity soccer coach and drama program director. In 2003, he moved to South Korea, where he taught English at Dong-eui University in Busan for 4 years. He also taught SAT, TOEFL, and debate classes at Busan International High School and The Korea Science Academy. In Busan, he founded Round Face Productions, a theater group of foreigners living in South Korea. With Round Face, he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in several productions. His fiction, poetry, and journalism has appeared in several journals and newspapers around the world. He has also worked in the Office of Admissions at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Stephen
Amrol was born in the small New England town of Concord, New Hampshire. His nearly 20 years of experience in education includes five American universities, three Korean universities, four American high schools, and three Korean high schools. He has primarily taught English Language and Literature, World History, American History, International Relations, Film Studies, and Comparative Culture (US-Korea). He earned his B.A. in English Literature and History from Lehigh University and an M.A. in Secondary Social Studies Education from New York University. Despite briefly entering the cultural anthropology graduate program (for Korean studies) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000, he transferred to the Ph.D. program in International Relations at Florida International University where he is investigating the effects of media images on South Korean public opinion regarding the US security presence in East Asia for his dissertation. In pursuit of an ever-deepening understanding of various educational perspectives from different socio-cultural backgrounds, he has lived in Seoul, South Korea for over ten years.
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Salavat
M. Ishikaev was born in Uzbekistan
(a former Soviet Union republic) and lived
up to age 15 in Kyrgyzstan. At the age of
15, he was invited to Specialized Physical
and Mathematical School of Novosibirsk State
University. After graduating, he entered
the Physics Department of the Novosibirsk
State University, graduating with honors;
he received his master’s degree in 1985.
Upon completing his master’s, he worked in
science at the Institute of Atmospheric Optics,
in the Institute of Automatic and Electrometry,
and at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry.
He has more than 50 scientific publications,
20 of which are in the leading journals such
as Physics Review B, Physica C, Journal
of Experimental and Theoretical Physics,
Physics Letters A, Journal of Applied Physics,
Instruments and Experimental Techniques and
some others. The areas of his scientific
interests are low-temperature physics and
magnetism, and superconductivity. He received
his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from
Omsk State University. His dissertation was
devoted to magnetic properties of regular
systems of superconductive elements, connecting
by weak links. He had discovered avalanches
of magnetic flux quanta developing in some
of such systems. He has more than 20 years
of experience teaching physics. He has taught
gifted students in the Specialized Educational
Scientific Center of Novosibirsk State University
from 1988 to 2006. His teaching experience
includes advanced physics program (which
is analogous to AP physics). From 2001 up
to 2006, he was regularly invited to Kamchatka’s
Winter and Summer physical and mathematical
schools to teach advanced physics (Kamchatka
peninsula is the region in the Far East Russia).
In 2006, he was invited to Korea Science
Academy in Pusan - the specialized high school
for gifted students - where he taught experimental
physics for two years. |
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Zhifan Zhang was born in Liaoning province of China. She received her B.S. in Economics and Financial Engineering from the Central University of Finance and Economics and her M.S. in Statistics from the University of Chicago where she was also a consulting assistant for the Department of Statistics. She has written many papers related to data analysis and economic innovations in China, one of which was published in 2007 in the Journal of Contemporary Economics. She has also received international awards for her mathematical modeling ideas in both 2006 and 2007. She teaches algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, and calculus. |
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Yilin
Zhang was born in Inner Mongolia, China. He received his B.A. in Economics from the Central University of Finance and Economics and is currently earning his M.S. in Quantitative Finance through the University of Chicago. He has prior working experience in the assurance department at the global firm, Price Waterhouse Coopers. His research interests include portfolio theory of the stock market and accounting standards for the IPO project. He has earned scholarships for outstanding academic and leadership performance for his undergraduate studies and was voted one of the top 100 graduating students in Beijing, 2007. He teaches Economics and Chinese language. |
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