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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ambassador Reception(s)

One of the most exciting events thus far has been our visit to the United States Embassy to meet the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, Ms. Cynthia Stroum.  There was a group of about 30 students currently involved in some form of studies with the Fulbright-Schuman Program as well as close to 20 Fulbright-Schuman Alumni that night.  The Ambassador was very friendly and expressed her excitement about our particular program during her speech to the group.  The special recognition of our program by Ambassador Stroum truly meant a lot to us as the inaugural CanSys class.  Although there was a large crowd, we all managed to meet her near the end of the evening to further discuss our studies and how our transition (as well as her own) to Luxembourg has been going so far.  Pictures of this event will be available shortly and I will be sure to post them here.


As if that wasn't enough, the six of us were also invited to a reception on the University of Luxembourg's Limpertsberg Campus. Some of those who joined us for this event were: 

Ms. Cynthia Stroum: United States Ambassador
Dr. Rolf Tarrach: University Rector
Dr. Lucien Kerger: Academic Vice-Rector
Dr. Lucienne Blessing: Vice-Rector for Research
Dr. Franck Leprevost: Vice-Rector for International Relations and Special Projects
Professor Paul Heuschling: Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Technology, and Communication
Jenny Hallen-Hedberg: International Relations Officer


We all had a great time during this reception and were very excited to share some time and conversation with all of those listed above. Needless to say it was an incredibly generous invitation that we all truly appreciated.


A short article about the reception from the University website along with some pictures are attached below:
http://wwwen.uni.lu/newsletter2/articles/systems_biology_first_us_students_arrived_in_luxembourg/%28language%29/fre-FR 


Team CanSys with U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Stroum

 
Members of Team CanSys speaking with University of Luxembourg Rector, Dr. Rolf Tarrach.

That is all from us for now. Please visit the blog again soon as I am sure we will have more to share throughout the course of this program!!

Best,
Team CanSys 
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 21, 2013 at 4:46 AM

    Dear Team Cansys,

    I am a graduate student in Biomolecular sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam. I will be joining the CanSys programme starting from June in Luxembourg and then move to Buffalo in August together with 10 other students from the Free University in Amsterdam.

    One of my colleagues and fellow-CanSys student discovered this blog of yours. Im very happy to read all your experiences during the CanSys programme. We will keep following your blog and hope you all have wonderful experiences.

    Maybe we could organise a CanSys get-together in Luxembourg with all the CanSys students from UB, Luxembourg and Amsterdam.

    Kind regards,

    Jenny Singh

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  2. AnonymousApril 21, 2013 at 4:53 AM

    I just noticed that this blog is from 2010. However, Im sure you all graduated and had a wonderful experience during the CanSys programma.

    Kind regards
    Jenny

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