Don't miss this presentation from a Peace Corps Volunteer!
Ruth Barnes is a professor emerita of Missouri State University, where she taught
modern/contemporary dance technique, improvisation and composition, dance history,
applied kinesiology for the dancer, dance and technology, and mentored senior projects.
The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to teach, choreograph and perform in the United
Kingdom, she taught for 13 years at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York before
moving to Europe to pursue opportunities in dance there. After returning to the U.S.,
Barnes earned an M.F.A. in Dance/Experimental Choreography from the University of
California, Riverside. She also has a Certificat d’aptitude de professeur de dance
from the French Ministry of Culture; a Performing Arts Certificate in the Alexander
Technique through Balance Arts Center (New York); and a B.A. in English and General
Literature from Binghamton University. In September 2023, Barnes embarked on a new
endeavor as a Peace Corps Volunteer in North Macedonia. She works with local educators,
co-teaching English to primary school students.
Tuesday, March 24, 2024
4-6 p.m.
Strong Hall Atrium
Join us for our spring social event!. Learn more about the Peace Corps Prep program at MSU and about Peace Corps service and meet Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. This is a drop in event, so come and go when it works for you!
Refreshments will be served!
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Monday, September 25, 2023
4-6 p.m.
Karls Hall 101
The documentary film “A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps,” will be shown during Missouri State University’s Public Affairs Week on September 25, 2023, in Karls Hall 101 from 4-6 p.m.
The film’s director, Alana DeJoseph, will be present to discuss the film afterward.
Attendees can learn about both the Peace Corps itself and Missouri State’s Peace Corps Prep certificate program. Students who attend the viewing and are already in the program can apply their attendance toward their certificate requirements.
Refreshments will be served!
