{"id":1759,"date":"2015-10-01T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ebuckhor\/?page_id=1759"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:01:24","slug":"students-aiming-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/along-the-walk\/students-aiming-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Aiming For Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two projects receive $10,000 grants<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1832\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Armstrong-Agard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1832 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Armstrong-Agard.jpg\" alt=\"Armstrong-Agard\" width=\"329\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassia Armstrong &#8217;18 and Andrew Agard &#8217;18<br \/>Photo by James Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two projects developed by Trinity College students were selected to receive $10,000 apiece from the\u00a0Kathryn W. Davis Projects for Peace program, an initiative for college students to design grassroots projects for the summer to promote peace and to address the causes of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Selected for their proposal \u201cPromoting Peace through Environmental Sustainability,\u201d Karl W. Hallden Engineering Scholar Andrew Agard \u201918 and Harry E. Johnson Scholar Cassia Armstrong \u201918 worked with the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP) in St. Ann\u2019s on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to build a rainwater catchment and storage system to aid with firefighting and to provide reserve supplies of water for domestic use and irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Agard, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, plans to double major in computer science and mathematics. Armstrong, from Vancouver, British Columbia, intends to double major in chemistry and environmental science. Both participate in Trinity\u2019s Interdisciplinary Science Program (ISP) and developed their proposal after working together on an ISP assignment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1831\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Noor-Malik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1831\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Noor-Malik.jpg\" alt=\"Noor Malik '18Photo by Marina Verola\" width=\"212\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noor Malik &#8217;18<br \/>Photo by James Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other Trinity project selected for funding, \u201cInterfaith Harmony,\u201d was designed by Stanley J. and Rosemary D. Marcuss Scholar Noor Malik \u201918, who worked in partnership with the American-based Seeds of Peace to bring together 50 teenagers from several major Pakistani cities who belong to different religions and sects to engage in a weeklong conflict-resolution program in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore (her home city). Religions represented included Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism.<\/p>\n<p>Malik, who plans to double major in political science (with a concentration in international relations) and philosophy, planned to bring the experience back to Trinity in the fall through campus presentations about the conflict-resolution project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two projects receive $10,000 grants Two projects developed by Trinity College students were selected to receive $10,000 apiece from the\u00a0Kathryn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1759\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-fall2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}