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| Olisa Cifligu |
Olisa Cifligu, who graduated in May from Park University with a degree in interior design, has been appointed as the third secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations. As part of her duties, Cifligu will be assigned to a U.N. committee and will be responsible for preparing reports as well as serving as a spokesperson.
While at Park, Cifligu was involved with the Model United Nations club, an experience she said made a difference in her life to explore world diplomacy. "The MUN club made me a better person, a responsible delegate, taught me diplomacy and improved my public speaking skills," she said.
"I am very proud that I will represent my country to the U.N. The U.N. organization is one whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security, and to develop friendly relations among nations and to ensure progress in many aspects of social life," Cifligu added. "I have been appointed to a job that really will help me as a person grow and deal with issues all around the world."
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| Loren Ray Laughlin |
Sophomore Aiden Galarza, and senior Loren Ray Laughlin, both biology majors in the Park University Degree with Honors Program, have received prestigious summer internship appointments.
Galarza will intern with the Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program at Washington University in St. Louis. She has been assigned to work with the program's director of research related to Parkinson's disease and similar disorders in both animal models and humans, and will likely be working with monkeys during the internship.
Laughlin will work as an environmental protection aide in the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 office in Kansas City, Kan, continuing an internship with the EPA she started last summer. She will assist in water monitoring and biological sampling at reference streams in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, and will also contact landowners for permission to monitor their land and prepare written reports on background information for each monitoring site.
