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The Traveling Fellows Program provides critical support for artists in early stages of their career

Shafiqul Islam, from Engineering and Fletcher, writes this piece outlining how Bangladesh can minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cummings School Adjunct Professor Wiku Adisasmito writes this opinion piece on how Indonesia can learn from other countries how to develop a customized COVID-19 mitigation strategy.

The Talloires Network and the Open Society University Network (OSUN) announced the launch of the OSUN-TN Educational Partnership with a new project aimed at supporting universities engaged in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Communities Of Virtual Alliance & Inter-Dependence (or “COV-AID”). The pilot phase of COV-AID consists of two parts: a six month webinar series entitled “Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope;” and a Student Engagement Award.

Fletcher's Chris Miller explores the similarities between COVID-19 and the fall of the Soviet Union, in an op-ed for The New York Times.

A&S anthropologist Sarah Pinto discusses here new book, "The Doctor & Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis."

Fletcher Dean Rachel Kyte writes that now is the time to reset our institutions and economies towards decarbonization, in an op-ed for Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Fletcher’s John Shattuck writes why a controversial law that has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán unlimited governance powers in response to the Coronavirus epidemic is an abuse of power that “suspend[s] democracy in ways that will outlast the current emergency.”

Fletcher's Bhaskar Chakravorti calls on social media leadership to enforce stricter standards around COVID-19 information, in an op-ed for The Indian Express.