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Engage, Express, and Explore Workshop 2019

Professor Kevin Ostoyich introduced the Engage, Explore, and Express Workshop to campus in 2016 to introduce students to the process of research.  The workshop is intended to help students get involved and ask questions about the world around them.

 

Engage, Express, and Explore Workshop

 

 

 

Professor Kevin Ostoyich leading one of four Engage, Express, and Explore Workshops that were held on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Ostoyich speaking at Engage, Explore, and Express Workshop

 

Professor Kevin Ostoyich framed the Engage, Express and Explore Workshops this semester on the life of former Shanghai Jewish Refugee, Gary Sternberg.  (A document pertaining to Gary’s mother, Auguste Sternberg, can be seen on the screen behind Professor Ostoyich.  For more information on the fascinating life of August Sternberg, please read here.

 

 

 

Engage, Express, and Explore Workshop

 

 

Since Academic year 2017-2018, the Engage, Express, and Explore Workshop has become a featured event within Valpo’s First Year Core.

 

 

 

 

Professor Ostoyich holding document during Engage, Ex;plore, & Express Workshop

 

Professor Kevin Ostoyich incorporated many primary documents pertaining to the life of former Shanghai Jewish refugee and Caesar’s Palace blackjack dealer, Gary Sternberg, in the Engage, Explore, and Express Workshop.  Ostoyich’s article “The Dealer’s Cards: How Gary Sternberg Has Made the Best of Them” will be appearing soon on the official website of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University (aicgs.org).