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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Eritrea and South Sudan have totally different histories of emergence as "Newest nation in Africa", first Eritrea, and now South Sudan. Yet, there are important lessons to be learned.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/resilience/current-issue.shtml Responses to the content are welcome as we prepare to re-launch the International Resilience Forum (IRF) where discussion will be facilitated. Contact: <john.parker@tufts.edu>
Astier Almedom offers a "Perspectives" article reflecting on the meanings of resilience with a focus on national security.
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs is a highly respected international journal run by accomplished students of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Ayron Strauch (G10) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on September 7th. Astier Almedom, Ayron's advisor, and Alana Kapust, DVM, Ayron's wife were pictured at the celebratory reception held in Barnum Hall.
Photo credit: Cary Strauch, Ayron's mother.
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.
More info at ...
Video of IGL Alumni, Teny Oded Gross, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence Providence, RI
On October 18th, 2010, Teny Gross, an EPIIC alumnus and graduate of Tufts University and the Harvard Divinity School, celebrated the opening of a new home for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, a Providence based organization whose mission is to "teach, by word and example, the principles and practices of nonviolence, and to foster a community that addresses potentially...
Follow the blog of alumni Daniel Enking ['10] as he travels through Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing experiencing a new stage of post graduation life:
Jenna Sirkin [EPIIC '03] and Dr. Susan Pick have released their book Breaking the Poverty Cycle: The Human Basis for Sustainable Development, available now on Amazon.
The project grew from work Jenna conducted during a...
Nichole Sobecki shot and edited "Shooting for Peace," an initiative of the Jacob Burns Film center which explores grassroots initiatives, including a program that reaches out to people affected by AIDS. Featured on the New York Times website, found in the link below.
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