29 November 2018
U.S. Congressman David Goncalves Valadao (R-CA), was defeated by Democrat TJ Cox for the California’s 21st Congressional District seat, after the Cox campaign declared victory on Wednesday. The 21st Congressional District was the last contested Congressional race in the November 6, 2018, mid-term elections. TJ Cox has substantially outperformed Rep. Valadao by securing over 60 […]
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27 November 2018
The Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for scholarships from Portuguese-American medical students, as well as college and high-school students interested in pursuing medicine or other health careers, following the fund’s goal of filling the need among the community for Portuguese-speaking medical professionals. This is the 3rd year that the scholarships […]
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27 November 2018
Graça Índias Cordeiro, professor of Urban Anthropology at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, is the inaugural Gulbenkian/Saab Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies in Spring Semester 2019. Professor Cordeiro will teach “Cultures of the World: Portuguese Society Culture” in the Department of Sociology and a seminar titled “The Portuguese-speaking World and Its Diaspora in Massachusetts” in the […]
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27 November 2018
The Portuguese Government has authorized institutions of higher education to offer 2,500 additional placements for international students for the 2019/20 academic year. Currently, universities and polytechnics in Portugal offer about 10,000 placements for international students for each academic each year. With the addition, the initiative will offer a total of 12,700 openings. With this measure […]
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24 November 2018
First comprehensive overview of geological features in the Azores from volcanological, geochemical, petrological, paleontological, structural and hydrological perspectives. Includes a chapter on “Volcanoes and Society”, which is of great use for everyone working in hazard management in a comparable geological setting. The Azores archipelago consists of nine islands that emerge from the Azores Plateau in […]
20 November 2018
Hawk Island stands in the middle of the Atlantic, small and defiant, like its people. Two Brooks is the most isolated village in Hawk Island, surrounded by high cliffs and flanked at each end by a brook. It is a village of tenacious people, hardened by isolation and punished by nature with crude winters and […]
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