HELPING KIDS FIND HOMES
Kerry Marks Hasenbalg '94 (international relations, Russian studies) has labored to improve the lives of orphans the world over — from foster children in the U.S. to child soldiers in Uganda to Chinese youngsters with cerebral palsy. What has become her life's mission began in Russia during her Bucknell semester abroad, when she began talking to street children and learned that many were abandoned by families unable to afford their care.
Hasenbalg has worked in the adoption field for nearly 20 years now, as a Russian translator at first, then as a staffer on the Congressional Adoption Caucus. That job convinced Hasenbalg that much more needed to be done. She, along with four members of Congress, founded the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI), a nonprofit organization that seeks to inform and educate Congress about adoption. There are, she notes, more than 140 million orphans worldwide.
One of Hasenbalg's first acts as executive director was to set up a maze in the halls of the Capitol, to illustrate to Congress members how children get stuck in the U.S. foster system. During her time on Capitol Hill, she helped to get tax credits for adoption implemented and assisted members of Congress in the ratification process of the Hague Adoption Convention.
Hasenbalg, the daughter of Robert Marks '67, eventually left CCAI to raise and homeschool her own children (she has four), but she never abandoned her dedication to orphans. "If we really love God, we'll love people, and the neediest people are orphans," she says. "Their greatest need is to have a family."
Since the mid-2000s, Hasenbalg has been volunteering her expertise with Show Hope, a nonprofit organization that provides adoption aid and medical care to orphans. Her husband, Scott, is executive director of the organization. Among her achievements at Show Hope was to lay the foundation for four trips to China during which surgeons from Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., operated on children with correctable deformities, greatly increasing the orphans' chance of adoption.
—Theresa Galwas Medoff '85, P'13
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Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations Zhiqun Zhu tackles the reasons behind North Korea's nuclear sabre-rattling.
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Logevall talk March 28: 'Embers of War'
Historian Fredrik Logevall will give the talk, "Embers of War: Vietnam Reconsidered," March 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre (Room 301) of the Elaine Langone Center.
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CANCELLED: Bucknell/National China Town Hall event Oct. 29
Members of the Bucknell University community will participate in the national China Town Hall event "Local Connections, National Reflections," featuring U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, on Oct. 29 in the Terrace Room of the Elaine Langone Center.
Meet our new associate professors
Sixteen recently tenured or promoted associate professors talk about what led them to pursue their fields and what inspires them as teacher-scholars.
'China in North Korea nuclear crisis' Oct. 2
Hochul Lee will give the talk, "China in North Korean nuclear crises: 'Interest' and 'identity' in foreign behavior," Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.
Inuit activist April 26: global climate change and human rights
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will discuss global climate change and human rights April 26 at 8 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center.
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- Scholar: importance of Asia to America Oct. 17
Satu Limaye will give the talk, "The Rise of Asia and America's Anxieties," Monday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery Theatre of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University. 
Meet Bucknell's new assistant professors
Eleven new tenure-track faculty members describe their research interests and the ways in which they are challenging students across the disciplines.
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Sixteen associate professors discuss their scholarly interests, from brain signals to Hindu mythology, and their approaches to teaching.
Meet Bucknell's new full professors
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Christiane Schuman Campbell '01 discusses copyright law in the digital age. 
Jennie Welch '11 receives Fulbright for research in China
Bucknell senior Jennie Welch has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Grant for a 10-month policy research project in China. She will be working to implement an academic counseling program in rural secondary schools in the hope that more students will attend high school.- New bloggers to chronicle journeys abroad this fall
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Khoury Nov. 10: 'Reflections from the Holy Land'
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This week, we ask Robert Beard, a professor emeritus who taught Russian and linguistics at Bucknell for 35 years, about his recent book, The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English, and our ever changing language.
