News and Events

The BEACON is a newsletter of the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) which features news items about innovative program initiatives and the academic achievements of rescued scholars. The newsletter also includes messages from IIE-SRF allies on why they have committed their essential resources: time, expertise, wisdom, and funding to the mission of rescuing threatened scholars and national academies.

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Previous Editions of the BEACON

April 26, 2018
  • Alumna Calls for International Community to Involve Syrian Faculty in Support Programming for Displaced Students
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April 12, 2018
  • Physics Today spotlights four IIE-SRF scientists
  • Thank you to the first-time host institutions of Winter 2018
  • Selection Committee awards fellowships to new scholars from six countries
  • “Science in Exile” documentary premieres at IIE-SRF Forum
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March 29, 2018
  • IIE-SRF Hosts Third Forum on Partnerships in Support of Threatened and Displaced Scholars
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January 23, 2018
  • IIE-SRF: 2017 in Review  
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December 14, 2017
  • "After IIE-SRF": Dr. Abdul Ghafoor Al Saidi of Iraq
  • Thank you to the first-time host institutions of Fall 2017
  • Selection Committee awards fellowships to new scholars from six countries
  • IIE-SRF scholars in the media
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November 22, 2017
  • IIE President and CEO Allan Goodman writes on IIE delegation to Jordan
  • TWAS releases trailer for "Science in Exile"
  • IIE-SRF Director Sarah Willcox published in UNESCO Courier
  • IIE-SRF on the road from Chicago to the Dead Sea
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November 10, 2017
  • IIE leads delegation to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, host of the second most IIE-SRF scholars since 2002
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November 3, 2017
  • Save the Date: IIE-SRF Forum will be held on March 9, 2018
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October 19, 2017
  • IIE-SRF Alumna from Syria Presented with 2017 IIE Global Changemaker Award
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October 13, 2017
  • IIE-SRF Fellows from Syria and Yemen interviewed on French and Malaysian radio
  • Save the date: IIE-SRF Forum March 9, 2018
  • Alumnus from Bangladesh publishes new book on international law
  • Scholars at Risk releases annual report on academic freedom 
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