We encourage participants in our joint research collaboration (students from Florida and from Moldova) to join Professor Tatsiana Kulakevich as she moderates a discussion with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
If you missed the "live" event, please click this link: watch the full recording
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| Professor Tatsiana Kulakevich moderates a conversation with Belarusian Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya |
We are so pleased to be partnering with law students at ULIM this semester!
And we are especially grateful for all of the work of Law/Drept Faculty member Prof. Elena Margineanu for her assistance recruiting and supervising the law students from ULIM.
Elena MARGINEANU
Currently, lecturer of Environmental Law at the Public Law Department of Free International University of Moldova (ULIM), enrolled in the PhD program of ULIM Doctoral school researching international legal protection of ecosystems. Her master degree is in Business Administration Faculty (Management/Strategy Department) from Korea University, Seoul, completed under South Korean Government Scholarship Program.
Whilst at university in Moldova as a lecturer, she
redesigned the course of Environmental Law in order to encompass not only
land-related regulations but rather the entire spectrum of environmental
domain. As an independent expert on environmental evaluation she has completed
Environmental Impact Assessments for over 90 projects within the projects of
promoting rural SMEs and local producers. During 2019, received the Leading
Scholar award from One Young World summit in London, represented Moldova at
Budapest Water Summit and COP25 in Madrid. She is also a board member of
Institute of Expertise and Development from Moldova (IDEP) and a member of
International Ecological Engineering Society from Switzerland (IEES). In 2018
she started a private permaculture project to promote the idea of ecological
agriculture and principles of strategic development through the prism of
consciousness and system thinking.
We are so pleased to be partnering with law students at ULIM this semester!
And we are especially grateful to Larisa Patlis for helping us to connect with the Law Faculty at ULIM in preparation for our collaboration on this joint research project. Dr. McLauchlan had the good fortune to collaborate with Ms. Patlis when she was teaching at ULIM while on a Fulbright in 2010 -and they have been working together on projects ever since. One of the highlights was welcoming Ms. Patlis to USF St Petersburg as a Carnegie Fellow in 2012.
On this blog we will feature the bios of all program coordinators.
Next up -- Prof. Elena Margineanu of the Law Faculty -- who will be recruiting and supervising the ULIM law students.
We are also appreciative of all of the efforts of the Vice Rector for International Cooperation Valentina Ciumacenco on this and many other international programs at ULIM.
Larisa Patlis, ULIM
Larisa Patlis currently is interim director in the Library and Information Science Department at Free International University of Moldova (ULIM) and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Journalism ULIM, where she received her licentiate diploma and M.A. in International Relations (European Studies) in 2005 and 2006, respectively. She teaches courses in International Relations. She has conducted research and professional development visits in Poland (2008, 2009, 2013), Hungary (2009), Austria (2010), Lithuania (2010), Turkey (2011), Ukraine (2012) USA (2012/13), Georgia (2016), Germany (2018). Larisa Patlis was a Carnegie Fellow in the Department of History and Politics and the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and Civic Engagement at USFSP (for Fall semester 2012), conducting a research on Devolutionary Trends in Moldova: the Case of Gagauz Yeri. In 2016 Larisa became a winner of the Carnegie Scholar Publication Program 2016 competition for alumni of the CRFP.
Research interests include the following: devolution, geopolitics of borders, Eastern Partnership, Turkey-EU relationship and political Islam in Turkey. Her Ph.D. research focuses on devolution phenomenon, specifically on devolution in the Republic of Moldova.
For more about Dr. McLauchlan's Fulbright at ULIM, see her blog http://jainmoldova.blogspot.com/
Thank you Larisa Patlis for creating the logo for our Spring 2022 research collaboration!
