New York, NY  March 6, 2018 — International House, a leadership and cultural exchange program for international students, will host its 2018 Annual Awards Gala in New York City on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. This year’s awardees, as in past galas, are leaders in promoting cross-cultural and international understanding: one of Hong Kong’s and China’s top investors, property developers and philanthropists, Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties; entrepreneur and food expert Ariane Daguin, CEO of D’Artagnan Foods; Candice Morgan, Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Pinterest; The...

2018 Davis Projects for Peace Winners Announced Projects for Peace is an initiative for students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools and International House. This fellowship allows students to design their own grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 in any part of the world. Projects are aimed to promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Applicants are encouraged to use their creativity to design projects and employ innovative techniques for engaging project participants in ways that focus on conflict resolution,...

Peter G. Peterson passed away at the age of 91 at his home in Manhattan on March 20, 2018.  Peterson was secretary of commerce under President Richard M. Nixon and led various government commissions.  He was a great supporter of International House, most recently supporting I-House’s acclaimed Federal Chair Event on April 7, 2016, when, for the first time, all four living Chairs of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank gathered together for a public discussion. For 22 years Peterson was the chairman of the influential Council on Foreign Relations in New York, succeeding the late International...

by Angelica Hill (UK), Resident Press Corps On February 8, 2018, award-winning New York- based filmmaker Miao Wang spoke about her film Maineland, following a screening of the film at I-House. The producers of the film, Damon Smith and Violet Du Feng, joined her in discussing the film. Born in Beijing following the Cultural Revolution, Wang grew up at the end of the pre-modernized Communist China era and immigrated to the United States in 1990 when she was 12. In 2005 she earned her M.F.A. in Design and Film from the Parsons School of Design, before beginning work at Maysies Films...

International House remembers the life of a man who gave so much to his community, his work, and to this organization. Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr., an International House Life Trustee was a WWII decorated veteran, leader of over 40 companies, and was an active member of many boards. Rumbough was elected to the International house board in 1958 following his service in the Eisenhower White House.  After 18 years of active board service, he was elected Life Trustee in 1976.  The legacy of his work in establishing the alumni program and his decade as Chair of the Development Committee laid a...

by Angelica Hill (UK), Resident Press Corps Director Rick Goldsmith, as he talked about the moment he came up with the unforgettable title to his 2009 Oscar nominated documentary, spoke of the need for a great title for something great.  It is, as he pointed out, “a golden title” (at least in its abridged form).  I-House residents were lucky enough to have had the opportunity to see The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on January 25, followed by a conversation with Goldsmith moderated by New York Times reporter and Columbia alumni, Charles Bagli. The...