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A Word from the Dean: Looking Forward to 2011 – 2012
Nearly 600 new students are kicking off their SIPA experience this year. Dean John H. Coatsworth promises an exciting slate of initiatives, including the new Center for Global Economic Governance and the second installment of the popular “Leaders in Global Energy” lecture series.
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9/11: Ten Years Later
Ten years after the terrorist attacks, SIPA and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies will commemorate 9/11 and assess the situation in the United States. The symposium on Friday, September 9 will feature debate and discussion among Columbia University faculty, experts, and affiliates.
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SIPA's Global Mayors Forum welcomes Sameer Sharma of Hyderabad, India, on Wednesday, September 14. Known as the City of Pearls, Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the sixth largest city in India and the second largest metropolitan area.
Climate Change and Civil War
El Niño could lead to civil war, according to research by two students from SIPA’s PhD program in sustainable development. Solomon Hsiang and Kyle Meng are getting international attention for their work, published in the journal Nature. It links changes in the climate cycle to increases in warfare.
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Michael Doyle Honored by Fellow Political Scientists
Congratulations to Professor Michael Doyle, recipient of the prestigious 2011 Hubert H. Humphrey Award from the American Political Science Association. Previous honorees include David Patraeus and SIPA alumna Madeline Albright.
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Dorian Warren: Meet the “recession generation,”
MSNBC
Kenneth Prewitt defends the need for social science and funding for the National Science Foundation,
Science
Alexander Cooley and Lincoln Mitchell co-wrote an op-ed on elections in Abkhazia: "A Counterproductive Disdain,"
New York Times
Ousmane Kane on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser and her Fulani-speaking community,
Wall Street Journal
William Eimicke said the FDNY should look like the city it serves,
New York Times
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Joseph Stiglitz said the German focus on austerity is the “wrong thing,”
Washington Post
Ralph da Costa Nunez said millions of children have been “notched down into deep poverty” during the past decade,
New York Times
Arvind Panagariya says India could do more to promote domestic growth,
Business Standard
Ryan Kaminski (MIA '08) wrote Syria is a big test for new human rights organization,
Washington Times
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Lizzy Tomei (MIA ’12): "The Cause of Progress: The Power of Film and the Crippling Force of Corruption in Cambodia,"
WITNESS
Stuart Gottlieb asks if the White House could have avoided speech snub,
Politico
Ethan Arrow (MIA ’11): What sovereign debt and student loans have in common,
Atlantic Initiative
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Steven Cohen: “Hurricane Irene and the Routine of Emergency Response,”
Huffington Post
Michelle Moghtader (MIA ’12), interning this summer at
CNN, writes “Why No Iranian Spring?”
Paul Thurman says objective measurements do not capture the performance of a university,
Campus Review
Samantha McCann (MPA ’12) writes “Living Life in the Fast Lane, Taxi Drivers Take Five” for
The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog.
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Molly Powers (MPA DP '12) in Uganda this summer with the Millennium Villages project. Twenty-six students in SIPA's MPA program in Development Practice fanned out around the world for their summer projects. Read more from Molly
here.
Photo by Gaëlle Espinosa (MPA DP '12).
This newsletter is distributed by the Office of Communications and External Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Contact Alex Burnett at 212-851-1818 or
alex.burnett@sipa.columbia.edu.
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