Portuguese American Journal

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Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career  Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  Citizenship
 

Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises – Azores

Terceira Island remains under heightened scientific monitoring as the seismo-volcanic crisis that began in June 2022 continues, centered around the Santa Bárbara volcanic complex on the island’s western flank.  The Azores Seismo-Volcanic Information and Monitoring Center (CIVISA) currently maintains Alert Level V3 (reactivated volcanic system) for Santa Bárbara, reflecting persistent microseismic activity consistent with magma […]

FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows – Portugal

A new study released by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) finds that speaking Portuguese corresponds to an average 20% salary bonus for Portuguese-American workers in the United States. The report, developed for FLAD by a research group led by Alda Botelho Azevedo of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, underscores the growing […]

Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career – Portugal

Maria João Pires, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists and a central figure in Portuguese and European classical music, has formally announced that she has ended her career as a performer. The declaration was made during the award acceptance ceremony for the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award, held on November 1 at the […]

Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  – Portugal 

Lusophone writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, 43, has been distinguished with the Prémio Literário Fernando Namora, one of Portugal’s most prestigious awards for fiction, for her novel Livro da Doença. The prize recognizes outstanding works of narrative prose published in Portuguese during the previous year. Almeida’s win marks a significant moment in contemporary Lusophone literature, […]

Citizenship – Portuguese Parliament approves new nationality law – Portugal

Portugal’s Parliament [Assembleia da República] approved yesterday a sweeping reform of Portugal’s Lei da Nacionalidade [Citizenship Law], marking one of the most significant shifts in the country’s citizenship framework in more than a decade. As an organic law, the reform now moves to the desk of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. […]

Petition: Tell Congress to support Lajes Air Force Base – PACP

12 November 2013

A petition sponsored by the Portuguese-American Citizenship Project (PACP) was posted on Facebook to stop the proposed reduction of  US military presence at Lajes Air Force Base, on Terceira, Azores. The initiative urges Portuguese-Americans to undersign the petition requesting Congress to continue supporting  Lajes Air Force Base on Terceira.  Petition Background  For more than six […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

NASA: Jocelino Rodrigues finalist at the AXE Apollo Space Competition – KSC, Florida

11 November 2013

Jocelino Rodrigues, 19, is one of the top four UK finalists who will compete December 1 for astronaut training in the AXE Apollo Space competition at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.   Born in Porto, Portugal, Rodrigues is a 2nd year Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Bristol, UK. He will spend the […]

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Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Launched: International Graduate Certificate Program in Portuguese Global Studies – e-Learning

11 November 2013

The Open University of Portugal and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA, are jointly launching their first International Graduate Certificate Program in Portuguese Global Studies. Starting January 2014, the program is oriented mainly toward: (i) Portuguese heritage-descendents in the United States who want to reconnect with their family background origins or just want to acquire additional […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Genealogy, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Portugal: Is unisexism for all the way forward? By Len Port

09 November 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal is in the middle order of world rankings when it comes to gender inequality. The gap is closing in several key areas, but there is little chance of this country ever catching up with remarkable developments in Sweden. As one of the world’s most equal countries, Sweden has reached […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal

Community Alert: Provision to keep Lajes Air Field open not included in Senate Bill – Washington, DC

07 November 2013

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, the United States House of Representatives passed unanimously an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that “prohibits the Air Force from reducing the force structure at Lajes Field in Fiscal Year 2014.”   However, according to a community alert statement released Tursday by the National Organization of Portuguese Americans (NOPA), “Although […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Terceira

McCann case: Anger over new suspect – by Len Port

06 November 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) When Scotland Yard launched its Madeleine McCann investigation, it called for ‘restraint’ from the British media. Meanwhile, a Portuguese law forbids police here from divulging inside information about on-going criminal investigations. So how come newspapers in both Britain and Portugal have identified and published sensational stories about another implausible ‘prime […]

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