NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
Funding support of $14,140 was gratefully received from the Christensen Fund’s Global biocultural initiative – Institutions and Policies: Wisdom and Practice grant program (http://www.christensenfund.org/) to publish and disseminate a special issue of the African Health...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Piyali Kundu, A’10
The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship of the Institute for Global Leadership was launched last year and has significantly developed its program offerings this academic year.
This April, we selected an outstanding group of students to support in...
Jocelyn Grupp Mueller, G09, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in biology on March 11. Her advisor is Astier Almedom. She also presented a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in mid-March. Her presentation was titled, “Including Local Voices in Global Discourse: Case Studies from Boumba, Niger.”
Every year, NIMEP publishes this journal of student-written academic articles in order to add to the constantly evolving dialogue that seeks to promote peace in the most tumultuous region on Earth. This edition contains articles written by a diverse student group; authors come from all four years of undergraduate education at Tufts University as well as one student at the Fletcher School for Law and diplomacy. This issue highlights our latest...
By Hannah Flamm
Graciela Funes, mother of six and now raising two grandchildren, used to run the school store at the San Francisco El Dorado public primary school. The school is located two hours by bus north of San Salvador in one of El Salvador’s poorest departments, Cabañas. Spanning 700 square miles and with a population of 150,000, the department’s per capita income ($1,676) is almost half the national rural...
President Ramos Horta gave an overview of the types of challenges East Timor faces today and in the course of this discussion underscored the fragility of the peace they have. In his presentation he also addressed the important role of leadership in facilitating reconciliation and explained why he has opposed appeals for an international tribunal to try the perpetrators in Indonesia. Finally, President Ramos Horta spoke about the current...
On Friday, February 6, BUILD was informed that it's application had been selected for the 100 Projects for Peace Prize of Tufts University. Prize winners receive $10,000 towards a project designed to promote Peace. The Projects for Peace Website describes the mission of the contest:
In its third year, Davis Projects for Peace is an invitation to undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World...
Photo by Aalok Kanani / Tufts Daily
Mitchell Geller
The Tufts Daily
World-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey left his distinctive mark at Tufts on Saturday, braving the cold weather and high winds to put up a mural on campus. The visit was part of the 2009 EPIIC International Symposium on Global Cities and coincided with the artist’s upcoming gallery show at the Institute of...
Tessa Gellerson
Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Tufts Daily
This article is the second in a four-part series about how the recession has affected different parts of the university.
The economic downturn has found its way to the Tufts campus as both a blessing and a curse for the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), an organization that relies entirely upon...
By Mike Stucka
Staff Writer
TOPSFIELD — Whether he's trying to renegotiate a loan with a foreign government or bring dozens of former guerrilla soldiers up to economic self-sufficiency, Mike Niconchuk's life is turning out to be, well, a bit revolutionary.
Niconchuk, a 19-year-old Topsfield native, has found himself in some unusual positions.
He and another Tufts University student created a sustainable...
