Posted on 15 April 2011.
Portuguese American Chef Emeril Lagasse will launch a new primetime televison series – “The Originals with Emeril” — for the Cooking Channel. Series premiers Thursday, May 5th at 10:30pm ET (7:30pmPT). For each one of the thirteen 30-minute episodes, Emeril will visit a new city to feature three famous restaurants and interview Chefs and costumers. […]
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Posted on 15 April 2011.
The jury has recognized four finalists for the 2011 Portuguese American Post-Graduate Society (PAPS) Leadership Awards contest. The winner will be announced at the 10th PAPS Forum, to take place in New York, April 16. The finalists are: Vasco Calais Pedro, Ph.D. Vasco Calais Pedro is the founder and CEO of Bueda, a web-focused startup […]
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Posted on 15 April 2011. Tags: Artificial Intelligence
Portuguese native Fernando Pereira is easy to come across. At least online where you can meet him and get to know his professional persona. He is after all Google’s research director. If this doesn’t make him the quintessential Internet communicator, his virtual personal narrative will do it for him. Let’s follow Fernando Pereira around online where he […]
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Posted on 15 April 2011.
Casa dos Açores da Nova Inglaterra, based in East Providence (RI) and Sociedade Cultural Açoriana, headquartered in Fall River (MA), are organizing the Day of the Azores celebrations for May 7 at 7:00pm. The event takes place at the Sociedade Cultural Açoriana headquarters, at 207 South Main Street, in Fall River (MA), and will feature a […]
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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations
Posted on 14 April 2011.
Starting this summer Lesley University, based in Cambridge, MA, is announcing the launching of a collaborative program with Somerville Public School for a MA in Elementary Education with an ELL Specialization. This is an Initial License — says the announcement. Lesley University is seeking to recruit culturally and linguistically diverse candidates (including African-Americans) for this program. […]
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Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Scholarships
Posted on 14 April 2011.
The National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca National de Portugal), based in Lisbon, in partnership with the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), also based in Lisbon, is sponsoring a Research Fellowship Program aimed at American scholars interested in conducting research at the National Library archives. The National Library Research Fellowship is offered every two years. Researchers, teachers, […]
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