Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
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Program News|January 29, 2013
- Programs : International Resilience Program
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Program News|September 21, 2012
As part of the EPIIC “Conflict in the 21st Century” symposium in February 2012, EPIIC for the first time dedicated one of its breakout sessions to gathering experts and students in thinking about the following year's theme on global health and security. One of the leaders of the session was Ezra Barzilay, an alumnus of both Tufts undergraduate and medical schools and a Commander in the US Public Health Service as...
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Program News|September 21, 2012Myanmar sits at a crossroads, between the oppression of the last decades and the recent promise of an opening society; between its isolation and the possibility of rejoining the international community; and between the rising geographical powers of China and India. After decades under severe authoritarian military rule, virtually closed off to the outside world, Myanmar is just starting to see an influx of international visitors and...
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Program News|September 21, 2012“We are all BUILD,” mused Janani Duraisamy, reflecting upon her position as Learning Center administrator for the past year.
Janani is a student and resident of the village of Thottiyapatti, a bustling hamlet of about 300 people located approximately three kilometers from the larger village of Thenur in rural Perambular, Tamil Nadu, India.
For the past two years, the IGL’s BUILD: India program has been working with the NGO...
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Program News|February 9, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012: ‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009. Listen to the full story at Soundcloud.com.
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Program News|June 22, 2011EXP 91F
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Program News|May 16, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Jacqueline Kingfield has won a Boren Fellowship for a year in India where she will be studying Urdu as part of completing her MALD degree at the Fletcher School.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Tiffany Castillo has won the Thomas F. Black Jr Memorial Scholarship of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. Tiffany will be attending Boston College Law School in the Fall.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Chloé Rousseau was awarded the Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship on April 15th. Chloé will be pursuing her master's in public health studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Fall.
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Program News|March 25, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Professor Almedom and her colleagues/students at the Fltecher School answer informal questions on the study of resilience and the details of publishing in the Resilience journal.
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Program News|January 29, 2013
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
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IGL News|October 25, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Teny Gross, founder of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, exudes passion. As a crusader for nonviolence, Teny and his streetworkers are igniting peace in urban Providence. Never shying away from the hard truths about the violence epidemic worldwide, Teny inspires hope while pulling on your heartstrings.
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IGL News|October 16, 2012Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, lectured in the introductory class of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice last week. An award-winning foreign correspondent for many years with the Boston Globe, he discussed his Emmy-award winning coverage of the Egyptian Revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood, as...
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IGL News|October 2, 2012Since he first read about Lagos, Nigeria in a New Yorker article by George Packer, Samuel James has been drawn to the country. A Synaptic Scholar at the IGL, he first traveled to Lagos with three other Synaptics during the winter of his sophomore year in 2006-07. Since then, he has returned to Nigeria for at least several months each year, first recording the urban challenges of Lagos, especially for those removed from formal...
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IGL News|October 1, 2012EPIIC launched its Global Health and Security year on September 4, with more than 100 students attending the orientation session. Ultimately, the class enrolled 53 students, from freshman to seniors, with majors ranging from International Relations and Community Health to Computer Science and Biochemistry.
This colloquium will be an intensive multifaceted, multidisciplinary probe into historical, scientific, socio-economic, political...
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IGL News|October 1, 2012
Tufts Institute for Global Leadership Announces the 2012-13 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Awards
The Institute for Global Leadership is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012-13 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award.
The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor former Tufts President and Chancellor Dr. Jean Mayer, challenging and inspiring Tufts students and the...
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IGL News|September 29, 2012This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in an Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) Joint Research Project (JRP) that took place in Rwanda. Over three weeks, we heard the stories of Rwanda’s recent history and plans for the future from a broad variety of individuals.
Joint Research Projects (JRP) are one of ALLIES core inter-chapter initiatives conducted annually by ALLIES members in order to provide...
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IGL News|September 21, 2012Every year, three to five million individuals contract cholera, an acute diarrheal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water that contains the Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Because cholera is a waterborne disease, it can be transmitted quickly in environments where infected waste easily pollutes the drinking water due to inadequate sewage and sanitation systems. The bacterium originates in brackish seawater; as a result, cholera...
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IGL News|September 21, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Addressing Iron Deficiency in India
"Two years ago, I didn't really know anything about nutrition, and certainly not iron deficiency," admits Matt Edmundson (A’05, EPIIC’04, Exposure’05, NIMEP’05). "I was shocked to learn that the WHO considers it a public health condition of epidemic proportions, one that especially harms pregnant women and their children."
Edmundson and Jennifer Tsai, his business partner, met...
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IGL News|September 21, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Reshaping the Environmental Policy Debate
In the fall of 1991, political science major and then sophomore Kate Konschnik (A’94) enrolled in EPIIC, that year on “International Security: The Environmental Dimension.” Little did she know that her decision to participate in this “intellectual boot camp” would lead her to pursue a career in environmental law and policy.
Konschnik, a graduate of Hastings College of...