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Studying Abroad to Help at Home: One Fulbright scholar is using his IBS education to help build businesses in El Salvador MBA 2011 Home region/country: San Salvador, El Salvador Undergraduate education: Ave Maria University, 2005 (Nicaragua) Previous work experience: Ministry of Economy of El Salvador, PricewaterhouseCoopers Nicaragua Clubs at Brandeis: National Society of Hispanic MBAs, [...]
Guest post by Orlee Rabin, MA candidate in sustainable international development When I travel to a foreign place, the first thing I notice are the smells. San Andres is a confusing mix of smells, with surprising familiar scents wafting past as I walk down the street. It seems that my olfactory system is working on [...]
Brandeis alum Shaina Gilbert ’10 sent a few updates from the 2010 ETE Camp, an education and youth leadership camp that Gilbert founded in Haiti. This year’s camp, which is currently running, involves several Brandeis students as interns. Shaina and the students will be sending more information soon, but in the mean time you can [...]
I visited Costa Rica as part of my Latin America trip to get a glimpse what this small, stable, democratic country in Central America looks likes from the inside. Costa Rica is a country that is often held up as a model democracy, especially given its regional context: neighbor to extremely poor countries that have [...]
I am in Mexico City participating in a regional conference for academics and practitioners which focuses on challenges and opportunities for development in the region. Themes included human rights; identity, citizenship, and nationality; and governance and political processes. From my brief, 3-day stay in Mexico City, my participation at the conference, and in meetings I [...]
I attended a luncheon this past Friday hosted by the Brandeis International Business School (IBS). We gathered to honor Henrique Meirelles, governor of Brazil’s Central Bank and a new economic “rock star,” with the Perlmutter Award for Excellence in Global Business Leadership. The audience included Brandeis faculty, administration, trustees, and students. In his luncheon talk, [...]
Global Brandeis Profile: Marysa Navarro Aranguren Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College and Madeline Haas Russell Visiting Professor in Non-Western Studies at Brandeis University Education B.A. Instituto José Batlle y Ordóñez, Montevideo, Uruguay M.A. Columbia University Ph.D Columbia University Area of Expertise Argentine history; Peronism; Brazilian history; Latin American history; Latin American feminism; feminist history [...]
After earning his BA at the University of Rhode Island, Curt Davis volunteered as an Environmental Education Volunteer for the Peace Corps. During his 27 months of service, he teamed up with NGOs to help Paraguay address community concerns and needs. After completing his service, Curt traveled on to Hokkaido, Japan to work as an [...]
Shaina Gilbert is a Sociology and Health: Science, Society and Policy (HSSP) major and is graduating next month. During her time at Brandeis, she has been involved in numerous extracurricular activities. Most recently, she attended a meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) held at the University of Miami in April. The third [...]
E. Benjamin Skinner, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, recently traveled to Haiti to help a man who nursed him back to health when he contracted a severe case of malaria. Bill Nathan, a former child slave who Skinner met when he was researching modern-day slavery, was gravely injured in the recent [...]
On January 12th a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince and caused massive devastation to the city. The death toll is expected to be well in the thousands and a massive response by government agencies and non-profits has already begun. Professor Laurence Simon, director of sustainable international development programs at the Heller School, has had [...]
Lee Cohen, a second-year graduate student in the Sustainable International Development (SID) program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis. Each SID graduate student is required to spend his/her second year on-site for a practicum, often working directly with a local NGO. Lee is working with an NGO in Les Cayes [...]
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program offers travel grants for Brandeis students to conduct research in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latin American diaspora in the United States. Brady Anne Wheatley ’07, one of the past recipients of Jane’s Travel Grant, is currently living and working in Baja California Sur, where she serves [...]
Today’s lead BrandeisNOW story features a recent graduate, Danielle Friedman ’09 as a recipient of the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. It provides support to recently graduated students in the visual and fine arts for travel and living expenses outside the continental United States in accordance with a program of study or other activities approved by the fellowship [...]
We’ll try to highlight existing student blogs from time to time. This blog is run by Lee Cohen, a second-year graduate student in the Sustainable International Development (SID) program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis. Each SID graduate student is required to spend his/her second year on-site for a practicum, [...]
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