DR. MARGARET PEASLEE PRESENTS PAPER AND

ESTABLISHES STUDY ABROAD COURSE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

 

Dr. Margaret Hermanek Peaslee presents a replica of the Heinz Memorial Chapel to Abbot Lukas Evzen Martinec of the Augustinian Monastery in Brno while visiting the Czech Republic this summer.

TITUSVILLE, July 25 -- Margaret Hermanek Peaslee, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, recently returned from a three-week visit to the Czech Republic.  She presented a paper, “Equal Access in a Free Society:  Past, Present, and Future of Equal Opportunity in Education and Employment,” at the 21st World Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences held in Pilsen. 

Peaslee and her husband, David, also traveled to Brno to visit the Mendel Museum at the Augustinian Monastery and to consult with Peaslee’s coauthor, Professor Vitezslav Orel, Emeritus Head of the Mendel Museum.

While there, Peaslee presented a replica of the University of Pittsburgh Heinz Memorial Chapel to Abbot Lukas Evzen Martinec of the Augustinian Monastery.

In addition, Peaslee also planned a program, Study Abroad in the Czech Republic, which will be held next year, May 1-15, 2003.

Peaslee received a Hewlett International Small Grant from Pitt’s University Center for International Studies for the project.

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