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No Tailpipe: Nissan LEAF and Zero Emission Mobility
On November 5, SIPA's Leaders in Global Energy series welcomed Carlos Tavares, Executive Vice President, Chairman, Management Committee Americas for Nissan Motor Co. Tavares demonstrated the new LEAF and offered an overview of his company's approach to environmentally sustainable transportation.
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Leaders in Global Energy examines the challenge of creating sustainable energy while protecting the environment and reaffirming corporate citizenship. The next lecture will be December 1 at 2 p.m. with Fatih Birol, Chief Economist with the International Energy Agency.
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Student Goes “Back to Baghdad”
Nate Rawlings (MPA '12), a former captain in the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division, returned to Baghdad with TIME magazine. While co-producing a series of articles and videos about the city before and after, Rawlings saw a side of Baghdad he never saw on patrol.
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Midterm Elections: Talking Politics With Sharyn O'Halloran
On November 3, Professor Sharyn O'Halloran met with broadcast journalists from Germany to discuss the U.S. midterm elections. She addressed President Obama’s agenda moving forward, the impact of the Tea Party, and the 2012 presidential election.
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Creating and Cultivating Global Parents
Alumna Stephanie Meade (MIA ’02) launched an online magazine for parents raising little global citizens: InCultureParent.com. She says it will focus on culture, language, and traditions that appeal to parents raising multicultural and multilingual children, as well as global parenting practices.
“SIPA gave me the foundation and tools to move my career in international relations to a new level. Plus a community of amazing and talented friends who still inspire me. With children, I didn't want to travel as much as I used to in my career, so I chose to incorporate my passions into something that matters to me -
InCultureParent.com.”
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Students Use Technology to Make a Difference in Pakistan
SIPA's student-driven New Media Task Force is helping relief workers meet humanitarian needs in flood-affected areas of Pakistan by mapping the disaster online. The flooding began last sumer and has affected millions of people.
Student volunteers gather firsthand reports that people in the disaster area post to social media websites or send via text messages from their phones. The students then identify the affected community's GPS coordinates and plot its location to a map for relief workers.
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In the News
Arvind Panagariya writes "India's Unfinished Business,"
Foreign Policy
Ester Fuchs discusses the midterm elections,
WNYC
Richard Robb discusses “Currency Wars in the Global Economy,”
Arirang TV
Rodolfo de la Garza posts regularly on
WNYC’s blog. Read his latest “Will There Be a Marco Rubio Tsunami?”
Stephen Sestanovich writes about the supernatural and foreign policy,
The New Republic
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