Photo by Aalok Kanani / Tufts Daily
Mitchell Geller
The Tufts Daily
World-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey left his distinctive mark at Tufts on Saturday, braving the cold weather and high winds to put up a mural on campus. The visit was part of the 2009 EPIIC International Symposium on Global Cities and coincided with the artist’s upcoming gallery show at the Institute of...
Tessa Gellerson
Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Tufts Daily
This article is the second in a four-part series about how the recession has affected different parts of the university.
The economic downturn has found its way to the Tufts campus as both a blessing and a curse for the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), an organization that relies entirely upon...
By Mike Stucka
Staff Writer
TOPSFIELD — 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...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
"The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards."
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Sir William Francis Butler
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
In October, as part of a developing collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia and Hybricore in Chicago, the IGL hosted two senior members of the Faculty of Technology from AAU courtesy of Gregg Steinberg, the founder of Hybricore.
Dr. Abebe Dinku and Dr. Heyaw Tereffe spent a week at the IGL, learning...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Marti Ahtisaari Kicks Off Fall Semester Events
The Institute for Global Leadership has held a number of events throughout the fall semester to date, including honoring the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Marti Ahtisaari with a Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award. The...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
The Joint Research Project is a program of the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES). ALLIES is an undergraduate led initiative at the Institute for Global Leadership that creates a bridge for shared understanding between future civilian and military leaders.
The Joint Research Project (JRP) is...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
With 2007 seeing the first time in history that more of the world’s population is living in urban areas than in rural areas, EPIIC is exploring “Global Cities” as its 2008-09 theme.
Cities have variously been understood as the cultivators of civilization and the generators of prosperity, as well as the source of...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Ten years after graduating, Tufts graduate and Institute for Global Leadership alumnus Ryan Centner has returned to campus, this time in the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology where he also teaches on the sociology of leadership.
A double major in Sociology and International Relations, in his...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Fall 2008
Sebastian Chaskel
Research Associate, Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Back in 2000, then-candidate George W. Bush pledged to make this a "Century of the Americas." ''Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America,'' then-candidate George W. Bush told a Miami audience in...
