Project Pericles

Members of the Periclean Scholar Class of 2021 have helped the Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center obtain more than $50,000 in funding to support its mission of supporting and advocating for abused Lakota tribe children.

In this essay, Director of Project Pericles and Professor of Psychology Mathew Gendle elevates Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya movement as a model for populist solutions to governmental dysfunction in the U.S.

The article by Mathew Gendle, director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology, will appear in the next issue of the journal Tourism in Paradise.

The documentary is the capstone of three years of work by the Periclean Scholars Class of 2020 and focuses on the many faces of the people of Cuba.

Follow along with these students on social media as they learn more about the history, culture and perspectives that exist on the Caribbean island.

Conference presentations representing a global community of practitioners from educational institutions and community organizations

Periclean Scholars Class of 2021 is bringing two child welfare experts from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to campus to discuss conditions on the reservation and working with children to help heal difficulties they have experienced.

The series was developed by Assistant Professor Jennifer Carroll in connection with her "Citizenship in Crisis" course.

The series, titled (the) Local Matters, will feature speakers with expertise in policy, public health, law enforcement, criminal justice, prevention services and clinical care.

Periclean Scholars from the Class of 2019 visited the country three times during three years and conducted extensive research to support an impactful project designed to economically empower local residents. As part of their work, they raised money to help provide residents with fishing equipment that was delivered this month.