Newsy update
Every now and then I like to comb through my folder of blog ideas and gather a collection of news items that I wasn’t able to turn into a post of their own. In my recent news, we have:
♦ In January, Fletcher welcomed the 18th class of Tavitian Scholars to The Fletcher School. Each year, Fletcher hosts a six-month training program in Public Policy and Administration for fifteen Armenian civil servants from various government agencies, ministries, and legal institutions.
♦ A Fletcher PhD student, Rebecca Tapscott recently received the International Studies Association’s Carl Beck Award for best paper written by a graduate student. Her article, “Where the Wild Things Are Not: Crime Preventers and the 2016 Ugandan Elections,” written for the Journal of Eastern African Studies, is now available online.
♦ Fletcher now hosts a prayer room that officially opened this semester. Here’s the Tufts Daily story. Note that the photo includes our own Student Stories blogger, Mariya!
♦ Dean Stavridis recently sat down with Professor Eileen Babbitt to discuss “Bridging the Gap,” a grant to Fletcher from the Carnegie Corporation, aimed at considering how academic knowledge can inform and help create policy.
On a related note, Professor Michael Klein has rallied a large group of his fellow economists to create EconoFact, a web-based series of articles “to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies.” There’s already some very interesting analysis on the site.
♦ The University recently launched a Tufts Crowdfunding site, where University projects can seek outside funding directly from donors. A limited number of projects will be highlighted each month, after being reviewed.
♦ And here’s an interesting article from Tufts Now, by Brian Kitching, F15, who describes his battle with and perspective on PTSD.
♦ Finally, the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP) held its January residency in Malta, and produced this video to describe the experience. Note that GMAP is conducted primarily through distance learning, but once they graduate, GMAP alumni have been great members of the Fletcher community.