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Chargé Danny Hall meets with Finnish and U.S. representatives of GE to discuss best practices in energy innovation
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Espoo Yhteislyseo High School visits the American Resource Center
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Corporate Social Responsibility – it is not about laws (YouTube video)
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U.S. Embassy participates in the Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration
On Thursday, January 26, Public Affairs Officer Marjut Robinson participated in the 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration. The annual event was organized by the Finnish Holocaust Remembrance Association, which was established in 1993 for the purpose of distributing information about anti-Semitism and combating racial hatred.
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American Resource Center Announces the ARC Scholarship 2011 Recipient
Ms. Paula Siltanen of the Department of Political Science at the University of Tampere has been selected as the winner of the 2011 ARC Scholarship. The title of her Master’s Thesis is “The concept of otherness / alterity in the foreign policy rhetorics of President Barack Obama.”
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Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows visit Finnish Parliament
Eight European Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (FBFT) alumni between the ages of 17 and 19 visited the House of Parliament in Helsinki on Monday, Dec. 19, as part of their reunion program here.
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Ambassador Bruce Oreck visited NEAPO construction site
Bruce J. Oreck, the U.S. Ambassador to Finland, visited NEAPO’s construction site in Osmankäämintie in Vantaa, where NEAPO is erecting the world’s first residential apartment buildings made using FIXCEL® steel core panel technology.
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Native American lecture series comes to its conclusion
Since the beginning of October the American Resource Center has run a lecture series about the Native American Indians at the National Library. The topics have varied from major battles to education and from the history of medicine bundles to the legal confrontations in the 20th century. The eight lectures were all inspirational and attracted wide, enthusiastic crowds. The last two lectures were held on November 22nd and 29th.
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