BGIA Summer 09 Student Published on Globalization101.org
BGIA Summer 09 student Sarah Newhall recently published "Wildlife Cancer: A Global Conservation Threat" on Globalization101.org. Sarah is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and is interning with the Levin Institute's Globalization101.org this summer.
"Tasmanian devils, Beluga whales and Green sea turtles all share a new and common threat to their conservation. These animals and many more are dying from cancer at astonishing rates, and human pollutants are major contributors to the cancer’s severity and prevalence."
Molly Anders, who graduated from Bard College in May 2009, will study and research democracy and journalism in Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries. While at BGIA in Fall 2008, Molly interned at Newsweek International. Gergely Lodinsky, who graduated from Bard College in May 2009, will travel to the University of Vienna in Austria to study Austrian politics. While at BGIA in Fall 2007, Gergely interned at Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc. Uriah Ferruccio, who graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in December 2006, will spend 10 months as a Visiting Research Fellow at Peking University in China studying the country's changing attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also received a Critical Language Enhancement Award to spend 4 months studying Chinese in Harbin, China. While at BGIA in Fall 2007, Uriah interned at the International Center for Transitional Justice. Jonathan Peyster, who graduated from Bard College in May 2009, will travel to Qingdao University in China to research and compare the economic stimulus plans of China to the United States' through the Fulbright- Hays Group Project Abroad Program. While at BGIA in Fall 2007, Jonathan interned at the Asia Society.
BGIA Academic Director In The News
BGIA Academic Director and Bard College Dean of International Studies Jonathan Becker was featured in the New York Times on February 15th regarding a new initiative in Jerusalem to create a joint liberal arts honors college and a master’s degree program in teaching at Al Quds University. For full text of his article, please click on the link below:
BGIA Faculty Member Mark Danner published an Op-Ed in the New York Times on March 14, 2009 entitled "Tales From Torture’s Dark World."For full text of his article, please click on the link below:
