The Global Student Article - post-Hungary 2013


The Global Student

Dr. Myna German attended a conference related to her teaching an Honors Course, Religion/Ethnicity in Media and the Arts in Budapest, Hungary, March 7-8, 2013. It was sponsored by the Medieval Studies Department of Central European University.

Afterwards she went on a “Roots” tour of Hungary, where her husband Erv Schleifer emigrated from as a young boy, and then to Berlin. Ty Byers, one of our Mass Comm seniors is now living in Berlin and completing her degree from a distance. Going to Berlin helped Dr. German and Ms. Byers coordinate their plans for her to graduate at the end of the summer

Ty moved to Germany when she married her fiancé, who was an exchange student from Germany. They later divorced.






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