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...
EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)
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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
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
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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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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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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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IGL News|September 19, 2012This year’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) colloquium began two weeks ago and features the largest class the program has seen to date.
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IGL News|August 20, 20122012-2013 EPIIC Global Health and Security Brochure
Registration and First Class: Tuesday, September 4
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IGL News|February 15, 2012
Op-Ed article in the Tufts Daily by EPIIC student, Konrad Gessler
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IGL News|February 13, 2012The 27th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
Conflict in the 21st Century
February 22-26, 2012
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IGL News|January 18, 2012The National Defense Industrial Association’s Women In Defense affiliate awarded HORIZONS scholarships this fall to six students.
“Seeing so many candidates pursue STEM-related fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — was gratifying,” said Brenda McKinney, Women In Defense HORIZONS scholarship director.
The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage women to pursue careers related to U.S. national security...
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IGL News|December 2, 2011Ben Paganelli met with IGL students on Friday, December 2, 2011 to discuss the ethics of robotics in future warfare.
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IGL News|November 22, 2011Published November 1, 2011In the heart of Libya's ragtag rebellion
When revolution sparked in Libya this past February, I spent a month in the eastern part of the country as the correspondent for GlobalPost, the Boston-based international news site. I had come to...
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IGL News|November 22, 2011November 22, 2011Barnum 008 | 3:00pm5:30pm
Tuesday, November...