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Convocation
August 20, 2011
Hartford Seminary held its 2011 Convocation on Thursday to celebrate the start of the new academic year. Students, faculty and staff participated in a program designed by Professor Miriam Therese Winter.
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Seminary hosts Iranian Scholar
August 15, 2011
Hujjat al-Islam Seyed Mohammad Reza Mohaddes, a prominent scholar who is Deputy of Research at the International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran, and Deputy of Foreign Languages at Shahidayn Seminary School, Qom, visited Hartford Seminary for conversation with Seminary President Heidi Hadsell.
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Seminary Receives Grant to Educate Clergy in Multifaith Studies
August 10, 2011
The Association of Theological Schools has awarded Hartford Seminary a $5,000 grant to develop courses and a curriculum to educate parish clergy for a multi-faith world, through its Christian Hospitality and Pastoral Practices in a Multifaith Society (CHAPP) program.
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Seminary Receives Donation for Peacemaking Programs
August 5, 2011
Hartford Seminary's commitment to religious peacemaking has received a major boost through a $60,000 donation by a local alumna and her spouse.
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Seminary Hosts Kazakh Scholars
July 25, 2011
Professors Mahmoud Ayoub and Ingrid Mattson met with three women from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, in early July.
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Seminary Community Mourns the Death of Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'
July 20, 2011
Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi', an expert on contemporary Muslim thought, died suddenly of a heart attack on July 2 while attending a conference in Amman, Jordan. He had been an esteemed Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary from 1991 to 2008.
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Seminary Names Smith Faculty Emeritus
July 15, 2011
The Board of Trustees and Faculty of Hartford Seminary have named Dr. Jane I. Smith, a nationally known scholar in Islamic studies who taught at Hartford Seminary for 13 years, Faculty Emeritus.
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Hartford Seminary Receives Hoffman Foundation Grant to Provide New Computers for Students
July 10, 2011
The Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation of West Hartford, CT, has made a $5,450 grant to Hartford Seminary to equip a new student reading room with state-of-the-art computers.
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Director of Recruitment & Admissions
July 5, 2011
The Director of Admissions will be responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of recruitment strategies designed to attract and enroll students at Hartford Seminary. This position will report directly to the president and serve as a member of the president's senior staff.
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Special Donation to Hartford Seminary Library
June 25, 2011
Recently Trustee Umar Moghul traveled to several countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council. While in Qatar, he met with officials of the critically acclaimed Doha Debates. Now this meeting has led to a donation of a set of the debates to the Seminary library.