Highland Park & Deerfield TribLocal, Chicago, Illinois Fifteen sixth, seventh and eighth graders were honored with First Prize at the Illinois Community Problem Solving Competition. ...

The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado I asked every Peace Corps volunteer (“PCV”) I met in Mongolia whether they had chosen Mongolia: if the country had ...

Chicago Tribune, Naperville, Illinois As projects take hold and community members gain skills, Peace Corps Volunteers can see the difference they make in their communities ...

Howard University News Room, Washington, D.C. This year, Howard University held the top rank among Historically Black Colleges and Universities for producing undergraduate Peace Corp ...

UNM Today, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque  The Peace Corps rec­og­nizes the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico as the top volunteer-producing His­panic Serving Insti­tu­tions (HSIs). UNM ...

Osage News, Pawhuska, Oklahoma In a rural community in Botswana, an Osage is helping with the epidemic of AIDS and HIV as well as teaching ...

KJCT 8 , Grand Junction, Colorado GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Some people celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with corned beef and cabbage.  These two baby boomers ...

Huffington Post Imagine a job that offered opportunities on the edge of innovation -- from installing solar-powered computer labs to helping communities switch to renewable ...

The Andover Townsmen, Andover, Massachuesetts  Married 39 years, parents of two grown boys and finally retired — that might sound to many like the perfect ...

The Marietta Daily Journal, Marietta, Georgia Shelley Nweke of Marietta recently spent a day on Capitol Hill shadowing Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, a congressman with whom she ...

Voice of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin A bank teller and a substitute teacher will soon embark on an adventure that will not only satisfy ...

“Marquel Sheree Ramirez lives in a village of 300 people. She washes her clothes by hand and hangs them on a line to dry, bathes outside ...

  Katy Todd, a Forestville native, 25, is teaching women in the Togolese town of Dapaong the value of saving that small amount every other ...

  (Editor’s Note: Bruce Frankel was interviewed about Volunteering after the age of 50 on “Circles of Change” a radio show on 101.4 FM in ...

  Graduate students in our Peace Corps Fellows Program are immersed in projects in D.C. public schools and community organizations. Their classmates in the Master’s ...

  Eight kilobytes. It’s about the size of the Google icon on its homepage. Minuscule by today’s computing standards, in 1973 it was the ram ...

  Brady Deaton crouched down as his bus passed through the barrier and police were drawing their guns.  His ride had just passed through a ...

  A 65-year-old veteran teacher from Milton left for Africa this week for a two-year Peace Corps placement. This is Mary Ladabouche’s first trip outside ...

  Peace Corps volunteer Sandra Rose Wildermuth of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is working with her community in Paraguay to renovate the local youth center, which ...

  Volunteers had a meeting at the US embassy with newly-accredited ambassador Marcie Ries on October 1 2012. The activities of the Peace Corps programmes ...

  POTSDAM – A 25-year-old Potsdam man recently returned from a two-year Peace Corps mission in West Africa, where he educated a small village on ...

   Some things run in families—blue eyes, or dimples, or a streak of stubbornness—they are the physical and sometimes personality traits that make it easy ...

  It’s been a long, but rewarding two years for Ana Madrid. The Rio Rico native recently came back home after a two-year stint in ...

  Never shake hands over the threshold of a door. It’s bad luck. That is just one of the many cultural idiosyncrasies Jordan Post will ...

President Obama calls U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who died during an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a "courageous and exemplary representative of ...