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Global Research Assistant Program (GRAP) Faculty Proposal Open

The Global Research Assistant Program provides full support to Tufts students to work with Tufts faculty and research staff during the summer on ongoing international research and impact projects.

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Tufts Offers Haven for Scholars at Risk

An expanded university program hosts four academics—a veterinary surgeon, a human rights leader, a banking expert, and a professor of international relations—who fled peril in Ukraine and Afghanistan

A composite of four photos shows Sima Samar, Mir Ahmad Shekib Mir, Volodymyr Dubovyk, and Vladlen Ushakov.

Gender-Based Research Project Provides African Women Farmers with Access to Livestock Vaccines

The SheVax+ project, headed by an associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, aimed to close the gender gap and increase access to livestock vaccines for women smallholder livestock farmers in rural areas of East Africa

A community in rural Africa as part of the SheVax+ project

The League of Nations Continues Its Influence a Century Later

A new book argues that our knowledge-based world was built on foundations laid by the League

Black and white photo of a number of men dressed in black sitting in an auditorium. A new book argues that League of Nation’s efforts to develop data and information resources continues to be an influence

Recognizing Diana Chigas, Senior International Officer and Associate Provost

After nearly seven years as Senior International Officer, Diana will return to her faculty role at Fletcher. Read more about Diana’s lasting impact on global education at Tufts.

Global Events at Tufts

Elephants & Engineering Technology for Conservation

Nov

Study Abroad Know Before You Go: Mental Health & Wellness

Nov

Study Abroad First Steps Meeting

Dec

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Tufts Global In the News

The Right Way for America and China to Cooperate on Climate

Foreign Affairs

Fletcher Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher examines how the United States and China could pioneer a new approach to financing green development in the global South as part of climate change cooperation.

Xi’s Surprise Shake-Up Exposes Problems at Top of China’s Nuclear Force

New York Times

Fletcher’s David C. Logan says that President Xi Jinping’s removal of the top commanders of China’s Rocket Force, which controls all land-based ballistic missiles, might impact the country’s nuclear weapons modernization efforts.

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks

The Conversation

As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima approaches, Fletcher’s Tara Sonenshine discusses the state of nuclear arms diplomacy and efforts to reduce current nuclear stockpiles and curb new weapons development.