January 22, 2013 to February 28, 2013
Slater Concourse, Aidekman Art Gallery
In May 2012, the students from the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice traveled to Burma to explore daily life in the country’s...
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IGL News|January 28, 2013Born without an immune system, four-month-old Palestinian Mohammad Abu Mustafa will die without a bone marrow transplant, a procedure that can only be done in an Israeli hospital. A desperate plea from his doctor to save Mohammad’s life leads Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar to document this complex and emotional story. A powerful appeal for peace, ...
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IGL News|October 25, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Teny Gross, founder of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, exudes passion. As a crusader for nonviolence, Teny and his streetworkers are igniting peace in urban Providence. Never shying away from the hard truths about the violence epidemic worldwide, Teny inspires hope while pulling on your heartstrings.
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IGL News|October 16, 2012Charlie Sennott, Vice President, Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, lectured in the introductory class of the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice last week. An award-winning foreign correspondent for many years with the Boston Globe, he discussed his Emmy-award winning coverage of the Egyptian Revolution and the Muslim Brotherhood, as...
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IGL News|October 2, 2012Since he first read about Lagos, Nigeria in a New Yorker article by George Packer, Samuel James has been drawn to the country. A Synaptic Scholar at the IGL, he first traveled to Lagos with three other Synaptics during the winter of his sophomore year in 2006-07. Since then, he has returned to Nigeria for at least several months each year, first recording the urban challenges of Lagos, especially for those removed from formal...
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IGL News|October 1, 2012EPIIC launched its Global Health and Security year on September 4, with more than 100 students attending the orientation session. Ultimately, the class enrolled 53 students, from freshman to seniors, with majors ranging from International Relations and Community Health to Computer Science and Biochemistry.
This colloquium will be an intensive multifaceted, multidisciplinary probe into historical, scientific, socio-economic, political...
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IGL News|October 1, 2012
Tufts Institute for Global Leadership Announces the 2012-13 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Awards
The Institute for Global Leadership is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012-13 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award.
The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor former Tufts President and Chancellor Dr. Jean Mayer, challenging and inspiring Tufts students and the...
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IGL News|September 29, 2012This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in an Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) Joint Research Project (JRP) that took place in Rwanda. Over three weeks, we heard the stories of Rwanda’s recent history and plans for the future from a broad variety of individuals.
Joint Research Projects (JRP) are one of ALLIES core inter-chapter initiatives conducted annually by ALLIES members in order to provide...
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IGL News|September 28, 2012IGL ALum, NIchole Sobecki, recently covered a story about the on-going health crisis in South Sudan.
More info: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/malnutrition-and-mourning-in-south-sudan/
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=6261...