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|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|November 6, 2009
“Tejiendo los lienzos del desarrollo: Peace and Development in a Tumultuous Guatemala” is a faculty-student collaborative exhibition out of the Tufts University Anthropology Department and the student-let program, BUILD out of the Institute for Global Leadership.
Thirteen years since the signing of the Peace Accords, Guatemala and her people continue to face unfathomable obstacles in becoming a peaceful, progressing nation. Although...
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Program News|February 7, 2009On 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...
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IGL News|January 5, 2009
By Mike Stucka
Staff WriterTOPSFIELD — 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...