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Six SIPA Students Earn PhD in Sustainable Development
SIPA graduated its largest class ever from the PhD program in Sustainable Development on May 14, 2011.
The graduates are Ram Fishman, Solomon Hsiang, Chandra Krishnamurthy, Gordon McCord, Anisa Khadem Nwachuku and Marta Vicarelli. All were introduced and congratulated by Professor John Mutter, SIPA’s director of graduate studies for the PhD program; SIPA Dean John H. Coatsworth; and Kofi Annan, graduation speaker and former UN Secretary-General.
The mission of the PhD program in Sustainable Development is to create a generation of scholars and professionals equipped to deal with some of the most crucial problems in the world today.
“The diversity of intellectual and experiential backgrounds of my classmates has been the source of my most valuable learning in this program,” said graduate Anisa Khadem Nwachuku. “Sharing in their knowledge and understanding directly informs not only how I approach solutions in my own research, but also how I define the problems in the first place.”
Read more in this Q-and-A with Anisa Nwachuku.
The full-time five-year program launched in 2004 and had previously graduated three students.
Alex Burnett, June 8, 2011