Prof. Fred Hoyt joins Prof. Elisabeta Pana and students in a Business Administration travel course focused on the 27-member European Union. They will visit the EU headquarters in Brussels, London (which is in the European Union but does not use the Euro), Euro-saviors Berlin and Paris, troubled Athens, and potential member Turkey’s Istanbul, among others.

The group had a meal facilitated by an IWU alum, George Kambouroglou ’93, who works as a software supervisor at the EU.  We’ve been in touch with George as soon as we learned he was in Brussels, and he bent over backward to make sure we had as much information as he could find, and joined us for dinner last night at Café Leon to reminisce about his days as an Acacia/physics major at IWU.

Professors Pana and Hoyt with IWU alum and State Department Officer Karin Churchey ’93

Karin Churchey, a 1993 graduate of IWU and Johns Hopkins University and State Department, is now a State Department employee stationed in the political section of the Embassy in Berlin.  Karen was kind enough to invite four of her colleagues and May term students to visit and explain the structure and work of the Embassy.