Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast
A Skidmore College alum who grew up in Anyama, Ivory Coast amidst a decade-long civil war returned to her hometown to open a library.
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Steven Mukum ’26 Receives Two Awards Geared to Students at Forefront of Social Change
Projects for Peace alum Steven (Tuti) Mukum has received both the John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship and The Diana Award
Pratyush Seshadri (UNC ’25) Named Marshall scholar
The Projects for Peace alum and Morehead-Cain scholar will continue his studies in economics at the University of Oxford.
Sharing Educational Opportunities To Build a Brighter Future
by Mia Lumsden
Two WPI juniors get youth in their hometown excited about STEM.
A STEM Grows in Ghana
Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard ’25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere ’27 bring technology—and hope—to middle-schoolers in West Africa
Wilhem Hector (MIT ’25) Named 2025 Rhodes Scholar
by Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center at MIT
Projects for Peace alum Wilhem Hector has held multiple PKG Fellowships to support his nonprofit (1843), the Hector Foundation.
Ayomikun Ayodeji ’22 named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar
by Julia Mongo
The MIT alumnus will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.
RMC Alumna Aims to Boost Literacy in Liberia Through Project for Peace Library
Through a $10,000 Project for Peace grant, Birch spent the summer after her graduation helping create a library at Leap of Faith Academy, an elementary school in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia.
A Childhood Dream
Engineering student wins Project for Peace grant to establish technology center in Tanzania