Amundsen High School

Shining Light Into the World's Dark Corners

, Among others. Gilliam also worked as a carpenter’s apprentice at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station a decade ago, where she helped build a science station. And, as a radio producer and information assistant with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo earlier this decade, she helped construct a radio station.

Now based in Cape Town, South Africa, where she earned her master’s in film and television production from the University of Cape Town in 2006, Gilliam was recently awarded a Metcalf Fellowship for environmental journalism. The fellowship offered the opportunity to pursue a special course of study at Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, and was the jumping point for me getting into environmental journalism,” says Gilliam. “It is something I feel very strongly about … [I] think that there is so much going on in Africa, positive and negative, around the environment that gets overshadowed by humanitarian crises. Yet

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Chicago Public Schools Announce New Policy for Admission to ...

For magnet schools, all siblings of existing students will be admitted providing seats are available, with 50 percent of any remaining seats going into a proximity lottery. Proximity is defined as living within 1.5-miles of an elementary school or a 2.5-mile radius of a high school. Any additional remaining seats will be filled via a citywide socio-economic group-based lottery. Previously sibling admissions were capped at 45 percent and proximity preference was given only if the entire school had less than 30 percent proximity enrollment.

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CPS Says Racial Integration Remains a Priority

Chicago Public Radio - Nov 11, 2009

Tuesday, November 17th, 6-8 PM, King College Prep High School, 4445 S. Drexel Blvd. Thursday, November 19th, 6-8 PM, Amundsen High School, 5110 N. Damen Ave and more »

Veterans' Day events

York News-Times - Nov 07, 2009

Veterans' Day events11, at 10 am, at the Osceola High School. • Volunteers will be serving a free meal to honor local veterans on Wednesday, Nov.

Shining Light Into the World's Dark Corners

Barnard College - Nov 04, 2009

Shining Light Into the World's Dark CornersShe graduated from the La Guardia High School of Performing Arts, where she was a jazz saxophonist. A cultural anthropology major at Barnard,

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Alaska Dispatch - Oct 22, 2009

The good news is there's plenty going on this weekend for those of you who will be in state, including high school students posing as Elizabethan-era

Gunther steps down at Hersey

Chicago Daily Herald - Oct 31, 2009

"The big thing is Mark's leadership will still be at Hersey High School, which is fantastic." Gunther's first team led by current Cincinnati Bengals rookie

Name Dropping: Lifespan raises more than $5400

Santa Cruz Sentinel - Nov 08, 2009

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International Falls Daily Journal - Oct 29, 2009

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