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.

More Info: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/forum/archives/pdfs/35-1pdfs/Almedom.pdf

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.

Resilience: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Science and Humanitarianism 

 Astier Almedom's thoughts on resilience in Haiti in the aftermath of the most devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010.

More Info: http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2010/02_1/features/02/