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In the news: Initial applications are now available for the 2009 BERSI trips to El Salvador, Peru, and South Korea.  Please click here to download an application.

A delegation of BERSI scholars spent a week in New York City this August.  Click here for more information on the trip.

Kevin Tobin of CMTV will present his feature-length film "Far From Home: Experiences with Solidarity," a documentary of the BERSI Peru trip, at a special screening on May 12 at 7pm at CM. 

Fox 25 News Channel profiled BERSI as part of its "High School Friday" feature.  See the video here. 

A delegation of students traveled to Peru on February 15, 2008.  This was BERSI's second voyage to Peru.  Read about the trip here.

In August 2007, a delegation of BERSI students visited Chicago to immerse themselves in the summer atmosphere of another great American city. View photos of the trip here.

Trips like these form the Blessed Edmund Rice Solidarity Initiative, named after the founder of the Christian Brothers, Brother Edmund Ignatius Rice.  These trips provide ways for young men and women to immerse themselves in the struggles and imagination of other peoples and other cities. Not for the feint of heart, the Rice Institute began in 2002 as a unique approach to devloping collegiate-level scholarship and research in high school students, providing them with one-on-one student/teacher interaction, and workshops with notable artists and thinkers.  Past lecturers include: Andrew Bujalski, Joe Cistone, Michael Connolly, Ann Crumb, Michael Dukakis, Jon Sawyer, Paul Elie, Larry Harbison, Chuck Hughes, Melinda Lopez, Malachy McCourt, Brian Mori, Ronan Noone, and Michael Rush. 

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