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By Shabana Meyering Shabana Meyering, Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Northern Virginia Community College, was a 2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. She was also born and raised in India. In this essay, she provides her reflections on the changes she observed
By Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez, Instructor of Construction and Environmental Technology at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York, was a 2019-2020 participant in the CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay, he reflects on the many challenges facing India and how
By Amar Sawhney and Jessica R. Barnes Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building Construction and Interior Design at Miami-Dade College, and Jessica Barnes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, were participants in the 2019-2020 CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to
By Jessica R. Barnes and Amar Sawhney Jessica Barnes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, and Amar Sawhney, Professor of Architecture, Building Construction and Interior Design at Miami-Dade College, were participants in the 2019-2020 CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to
By Brian Turnbull Brian Turnbull, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Instruction with the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida and was a participant in the 2019-2020 CAORC-AIIS Faculty Development Seminar to India. In this essay he describes what ‘informal
Description: “In 2021, geoscientist, explorer, and community college professor Sian Proctor became the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft as part of the SpaceX Inspiration4 all-civilian crew.”
Faculty: Shouraseni Sen Roy Description: Study of climate change processes and impact in the Global South using geospatial analysis techniques. Read more in our AIIS feature interview.
Description: Example of Professor Sawhney’s Peace Center student projects joining the Miccosukee community in Florida with designs focused on studies of Jaipur, Chandigarh, Harappa and Brasilia.
This year we have been celebrating a history of scholarship in and through AIIS – exploring the narratives within the walls of the institute and the conversations that have happened thanks to the support of AIIS. In this episode, we turn from history to current research that
Howard University student Lydia Hill, who received an AIIS Digital India Learning Initiative summer student fellowship, created a virtual exhibit “A Peek Into Indigenous Furniture: Through the Eyes of Lydia Hill,” that was featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s widely distributed September 2022 IFLE Newsletter. The
This year we have been celebrating a history of scholarship in and through AIIS – exploring the narratives within the walls of the institute and the conversations that have happened thanks to the support of AIIS. In this episode, we turn from history to current research that
Shouraseni Sen Roy is a professor in the Geography and Sustainable Development department at University of Miami. Her research interests include climate change processes and impact in the Global South using geospatial analysis techniques. Professor Sen Roy was recently a senior short-term fellow with AIIS in 2021.
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