NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Hannah Flamm
In May, the inaugural class of 11 Synaptic Scholars will graduate. Synaptic Scholars is designed to encourage and enable students to realize their potential in collaborative, intensive, and interdisciplinary settings. It is meant to provide a forum for students to take...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Alex Clough and Peter O’Regan
The 4th annual Tufts Energy Conference, “Global Green Infrastructure: Powering the 21st Century”, took place on Saturday, March 28th in Tufts' new and environmentally-friendly Sophia Gordon Hall. It was a highly successful event that brought together...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By James Kennedy
On the flight home from Tel Aviv, we would have been celebrating our successful trip if we hadn’t been so demoralized and emotionally exhausted. On paper, the New Initiative For Middle East Peace (NIMEP) fact-finding mission to Israel and the West Bank had been an admirable success...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
Funding support of $14,140 was gratefully received from the Christensen Fund’s Global biocultural initiative – Institutions and Policies: Wisdom and Practice grant program (http://www.christensenfund.org/) to publish and disseminate a special issue of the African Health...
NEXUS | The IGL Newsletter | Spring 2009
By Piyali Kundu, A’10
The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship of the Institute for Global Leadership was launched last year and has significantly developed its program offerings this academic year.
This April, we selected an outstanding group of students to support in...
Jocelyn Grupp Mueller, G09, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in biology on March 11. Her advisor is Astier Almedom. She also presented a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in mid-March. Her presentation was titled, “Including Local Voices in Global Discourse: Case Studies from Boumba, Niger.”
Every year, NIMEP publishes this journal of student-written academic articles in order to add to the constantly evolving dialogue that seeks to promote peace in the most tumultuous region on Earth. This edition contains articles written by a diverse student group; authors come from all four years of undergraduate education at Tufts University as well as one student at the Fletcher School for Law and diplomacy. This issue highlights our latest...
International news website GlobalPost.com seeks university interns to
participate in field reporting from international locations as well as
production opportunities in the Boston area. GlobalPost and the Institute for Global Leadership are formal collaborators that enables some financial support for your research endeavors. If you are thinking about a career in news, multimedia, reporting, writing, editing or production,...
By Hannah Flamm
Graciela Funes, mother of six and now raising two grandchildren, used to run the school store at the San Francisco El Dorado public primary school. The school is located two hours by bus north of San Salvador in one of El Salvador’s poorest departments, Cabañas. Spanning 700 square miles and with a population of 150,000, the department’s per capita income ($1,676) is almost half the national rural...
President Ramos Horta gave an overview of the types of challenges East Timor faces today and in the course of this discussion underscored the fragility of the peace they have. In his presentation he also addressed the important role of leadership in facilitating reconciliation and explained why he has opposed appeals for an international tribunal to try the perpetrators in Indonesia. Finally, President Ramos Horta spoke about the current...
