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• Assistant professor’s father, a Hungarian patriot, influences a career

  April 30, 2012: University Record
  Profile of CREES Faculty Associate Krisztina Fehervary
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• AAAS Selects Five Faculty Members as Fellows

  April 18, 2012: University Record
  CREES Faculty Associate John O'Shea elected for significant scholarly contributions
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• Former Polish President and Czech Prime Minister at U-M

  April 17-18, 2012
  Polish and Czech leaders will speak about European crisis; Jewish music commemorates Holocaust
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• Global communications: U-M offers Punjabi, Swahili and dozens of other languages

  CREES uses Title VI funds to support teaching Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Russian, and Ukrainian; and supplemental tutoring for distance Pashto and Uzbek courses; we also provide funds to support Polish instruction.
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• 20th Annual SOYUZ Symposium

  March 23-24, Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union
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• Prof. Andrei Markovits honored with German Order of Merit

  
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• Outsourced to Belarus

  February 28, 2012: Post-Soviet Post
  CREES Research Associate Elena Gapova on Western tech companies in the former Soviet Union
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• Balkan Documentary Films Take the Spotlight at CREES in March

  March 13, 14, & 27, 2012
  Two films from former Yugoslavia explore history and post-war relations
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• Brian Porter-Szucs, CREES and CES Faculty Associate, named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

  February 17, 2012: Record Update
  History professor teaches on Poland; honored for his use of technology in the classroom and mentoring undergraduate students.
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• REES undergraduate student among prestigious Hopwood Award recipients

  Andrew N. McIntyre receives fiction award for "Four Stories"
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• Polish writer to discuss controversial Warsaw Ghetto singer

  Agata Tuszynska’s latest book intersects with history of Roman Polanski’s The Pianist
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• Russian legal expert to discuss the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  January 18, 2012
  Prof. Jeffrey Kahn, a U-M alumnus, will review human rights implications
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• U-M community mourns the passing of Václav Havel, honorary U-M Doctor of Laws and former President of the Czech Republic

  Havel received an honorary degree from the University of Michigan in September 2000
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• U-M experts available to discuss nationwide protests in Russia

  CREES Faculty Associates are available to discuss the nationwide protests in Russia following the fraud-tainted elections for Parliament.
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• Satirist Talks Freedom of Speech in Russia

  Victor Shenderovich will share his experience and perspective on Russian media
  November 2, 2011
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• CREES Faculty Associate Howard Markel talks to PBS Newshour about his new book

  Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund Freud, William Halsted
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• CREES Faculty Associate Howard Markel featured on C-SPAN’s BookTV

  Markel will discuss his latest book, An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine.
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• My next-door neighbor, Goran Bregovic

  CREES Faculty Associate Endi Poskovic reflects on growing up in Yugoslavia ahead of musician Bregovic's concert at U-M
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• “Milosz: Made in America” program will honor Polish poet with Michigan ties, September 22

  Nobel laureate taught and published at U-M, received honorary degree
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• U-M’s Olga Maiorova giving inaugural CREES Director lecture, September 14

  Opening talk in fall series will focus on Imperial Russian perceptions of Asia
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• Albright, Hagel: Language cuts endanger U.S.

  Two respected U.S. leaders argue that cuts to Title VI funding, which supports CREES and other area studies programs, is a mistake.
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• Weiser Center releases 2010-11 Annual Report

  The report includes information about public programs, outreach, student and faculty awards, visiting fellows, and alumni.
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• Drugs Stop AIDS. Take Your Medicine.

  May 21, 2011: The New York Times
  CREES faculty associate Howard Markel talks about how, after 30 years, AIDS still is viewed as an illness like no other.
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• Five faculty projects honored with 2011 Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize

  April 12, 2011: The University Record
  CREES Director Douglas Northrop awarded for ZOOM: Teaching Time, Space, and Approaches to Knowledge
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• U-M faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for research

  April 8, 2011: The University Record
  CREES faculty associate Endi Poskovic receives award for fine arts
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• CREES Celebrates 50 Years with Alumni-Focused Reunion

  April 4, 2011
  Center’s history reflected in the accomplishments of regional experts trained at U-M
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• CREES Mourns the passing of Polish composer Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)

  November 12, 2010
  One-time Copernicus lecturer received U-M honorary doctorate in 1996
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