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  • Civil Rights Movement Discussed at the ARC
    Civil Rights Movement Discussed at the ARC

    A group of Espoon Yhteislyseo Upper Secondary School students paid a visit to the American Resource Center on Friday, March 1. The visit was part of a special interdisciplinary course entitled History in English: Freedom Struggles From Around the World.  

  • ARC Scholarship 2012 to Turku
    ARC Scholarship 2012 to Turku (Feb. 25, 2013)

    Ms. Suvi Karila of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku has been selected as the winner of the 2012 ARC Scholarship.  

  • American Resource Center Scholarship 2011 Awarded
    American Resource Center Scholarship 2011 Awarded (Mar. 8, 2012)

    The ARC Grant 2011 was awarded to Ms. Paula Siltanen on March 8 in Tampere. Public Affairs Officer Marjut Robinson presented the certificate and congratulated the winner on her achievement.  

  • The 2010 ARC scholarship winner, Janniina Elo, received her award certificate from the U.S. Embassy representative, Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs Marjut Robinson
    American Resource Center Announces the ARC Scholarship 2010 Recipient (Mar 11, 2011)

    The U.S. Embassy’s Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs Marjut Robinson announced the 2010 award recipient of the American Resource Center grant in the America in Living Color Seminar in Tampere on March 11.  

  • ARC Scholarship Grant 2010 awarded to Janniina Elo
    ARC Scholarship Grant 2010 awarded to Janniina Elo

    Ms. Janniina Elo from the Department of Early Childhood Education at the University of Tampere is the winner of the ARC scholarship grant 2010. 

  • High School students at the ARC
    Presentation on Cultural Regions in the U.S.

    On December 16, history students from the Etu-Toolo High School visited the American Resource Center, where Assistant Public Affairs Officer David McGuire gave a presentation on the cultural regions in the United States. 

  • Sibelius High School
    Political Officer Hunter Treseder Lectured at the American Resource Center

    Hunter Treseder from the Political-Economic Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Helsinki, gave a presentation on “Studying and Working in the U.S.A." at the American Resource Center on November 22. Mr. Treseder started by presenting the similarities between Finland and the United States. He discussed a large variety of public and private schools and higher education institutions in the U.S. as well as diverse practices regarding admissions, tuitions, scholarships, and auditions. 

  • Studying a map of the U.S. at the ARC collection room (Photo by State Dept.)
    Munkkiniemi High School Students Visit the ARC

    May 19, 2010 A group of Swedish speaking students from Munkkiniemi High School in Helsinki visited the ARC with their English teacher on May 19. They were given a tour of the premises and an introduction of the ARC collections and services. 

  • Distinguished Guests at the ARC

    May 12, 2010 Mrs. Laura Stavridis and Mrs. Tiina Laisi-Puheloinen visited the American Resource Center on May 12. The visit was part of the spouses’ program during the visit of Admiral James G. Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to Helsinki, hosted by General Ari Puheloinen. 

  • ARC Director Taina Iduozee briefing the visitors
    English Textbook Editors Visit the ARC

    May 7, 2010 A group of English language teachers and editors who also work as textbook writers for WSOYpro visited the ARC to learn about its services and collection. They were briefed about exchange programs for secondary school educators organized by the Embassy's Public Affairs Section and the wealth of materials available for teachers at the ARC. 

  • Rainey Tisdale at the American Resource Center
    American Resource Center Commemorates Women’s History Month

    March 30, 2010 Fulbright Scholar Rainey Tisdale gave a guest lecture on “Women’s Identity in History – the Museum Perspective” at the American Resource Center on March 30. Ms. Tisdale’s presentation explored the five interactive phases of women’s representation theory created by Peggy McIntosh. 

  • Public Diplomacy Officer Dmitri Tarakhovsky
    Finnish High School Students Learn About the Multiculturalism in the U.S.

    March 16, 2010 A group of students and teachers from Haukilahti High School visited the American Resource Center to meet with Public Diplomacy Officer Dmitri Tarakhovsky from Washington D.C.  

  • Audience at the ARC movie event
    ARC Celebrates the African American Cinema

    February 10, 2010 February is National African American History Month in the United States and on February 10, the American Resource Center arranged a lecture on the history of the African American cinema with the title “Mustat amerikkalaiset Yhdysvaltain elokuvahistoriassa.” 

  • Tuomas Koskenniemi, ARC Grant 2009 recipient (State Dept.)
    American Resource Center Announces the ARC Scholarship 2009 Recipient

    February 3, 2010 Mr. Tuomas Koskenniemi from the University of Helsinki has been selected as the winner of the 2009 ARC Scholarship with his Master’s thesis entitled “We Are All Georgians, Aren’t We? The Neoconservative Reaction to the Russia-Georgia War.”  

  • AinO Center Students at the American Resource Center
    AinO Center Students Visited the American Resource Center

    November 16, 2009 As part of the International Education Week activities, language students from the AinO Center of the University of Helsinki visited the American Resource Center. The students learned what print and electronic resources, and information services available for students and teachers at the ARC. 

  • The International Relations Group of the FRLA visits the American Resource Center
    Members of the Finnish Research Library Association visit the ARC

    April 22, 2009 The International Relations Group of the Finnish Research Library Association paid a visit to the American Resource Center on April 22. 

  • International Information Bureau publications attract students
    Kuhmo High School on Tour

    April 21, 2009 62 students from the Kuhmo High School visited the American Resource Center on April 21 during their tour to Kuopio, Jyväskylä, and Helsinki. 

  • Students from Munkkiniemi High School at the American Resource Center
    Embassy and Library Information to the Munkkiniemi High School Students

    April 20, 2009 A group of 18 students with English Teacher Mervi Tiainen made a excursion to the American Resource Center on April, 20.  

  • Crafts and design students from Varia giving a closer view to the Ebony magazine
    Varia Students Visited the American Resource Center

    April 16, 2009 A group of a dozen students from the Vantaa Vocational College Varia visited the American Resource Center with their English teacher Kirsti Ahtola on April 16.  

  • Lattie F. Coor and Mrs. Elva Coor visit the American Resource Center
    Lattie F. Coor and Mrs. Elva Coor visit the American Resource Center

    September 19, 2008 Lattie F. Coor is President-Emeritus, Professor and Ernest W. McFarland Chair in Leadership and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University, and is Chairman and CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona.  

  • Susanne Setälä with Kimberly Hargan from the Public Affairs Section
    Susanne Setälä Received the 2007 ARC Grant

    February 20, 2008 Susanne Setälä from the Department of English at Turku University received the American Resource Center grant on February 20th. The annual grant is intended for students of Finnish nationality, enrolled at a Finnish university, who are working on a Master’s thesis on a topic related to the United States.  

  • American Resource Center Grant 2007 Awarded

    December 2007 The American Resource Center (ARC) delivers an annual ARC scholarship in the amount of 1,000 euros to support Master’s degree work on studies of the U.S.  

  • Thaddeus Plosser briefs Haaga-Helia students.
    Haaga-Helia Students Briefed on Cross Cultural Management Experience

    November 19, 2007 A group of 25 business administration students from the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences visited the American Resource Center on Monday, November 19. 

  • L-R Ms. Anni Sams, Mr. Pekka Jääskeläinen, Ambassador Ware and Ms. Petra Helenius
    ARC Announces the 60th Anniversary Scholarship Recipients

    January 25, 2007 14 applications for the ARC grant were received by the closing date September 30, 2006, and the jury was impressed and delighted by the originality, diversity, and the high quality of the topics and applications.  

  • The 10,000th borrower's card was issued in July 1952.
    American Resource Center (1946-2006) Celebrating Its 60th Anniversary

    May 17, 2006 The first American library in Finland, operated by the United States Information Service, opened at Kalevankatu 13 in Helsinki in 1946, with a modest collection of 2,000 books.