Alison Coffey (EPIIC’09, Synaptic Scholar, A’11)

NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009

By Hannah Flamm

NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009

By Hannah Flamm

Reconciling Iraq Following up on "Iraq Moving Forward" from January 2007, The Institute for Global Leadership, IGL External Advisory Board Chair Robert Bendetson, and University of Massachusetts/Boston Professor Padraig O'Malley gathered leading senior Iraqis in Helsinki for three days of discussions on principles of future engagement.

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Under the aegis of the Synaptic Scholars Program and in collaboration with Sol Productions, Nomadic Wax Productions, and more than fifteen Tufts groups and organizations, Ikenna Acholonu, Erin Baldassari, and Breese McIlvaine coordinated a full-day event revolving around the theme of “Hip Hop for Social Change”.

Photo: Synaptic Scholars at a retreat in the fall of 2007

The IGL began its Synaptic Scholars program in 2006-07. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students interested in creative, intellectual exploration to realize their potential in intensive, interdisciplinary settings.