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IIE CEO Allan Goodman presented the IIE Centennial Medal, which honors individuals and institutions that have made important contributions to international education, to Cornell University on October 20, 2023. The award honors Cornell’s robust and long-standing tradition of hosting displaced and threatened scholars in partnership with IIE-SRF, as well as the university’s involvement with Fulbright, Gilman and other IIIE-administered State Department Programs.

Dr. Kifah Ghazeddin, who undertook his IIE-SRF fellowship in 2020-22, is a biologist at Carleton University in Canada. Noted for his contributions to research on enhancing food production in the face of poverty, he has been welcomed as one of the 2023 new members of the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s highest academic honor.

Nezaami was interviewed by his host Stanford University Law School about leaving Afghanistan to come to Stanford on an IIE-SRF fellowship and his worries for and efforts to give back to those still left behind.

IIE-SRF Director James R. King spoke with the outlet about the program’s efforts to support Yemeni scholars since the outbreak of war in 2014.

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law profiles three displaced researchers who have found the opportunity to continue their work in safety on campus and highlights the Institute’s partnership with IIE-SRF.

Dr. Marycelin Baba of Nigeria received the L’Oréal-UNESCO medal of honor for women scientists. This medal recognizes her scientific achievements despite facing conditions that forced her to temporarily leave her home country. Dr. Baba undertook IIE-SRF fellowships in South Africa and Kenya but has since returned to Nigeria, where her work has contributed to nearly eradicating polio in the country.

The Brookings Register ran a three-part story on alumnus Tareq Al Maqtari’s journey of pursuing a passion for teaching across three countries. Read part I at the link below, then find part II here and part III here.

Fellow Marzia Hakimi, in an interview with Candaian Women for Women in Afghanistan, diuscusses gender descriminiation she faced in a male-dominated field in Afghanistan, the fate of women and girls’ education in Afghanistan today, and how she has found an academic home at the University of Alberta.

The article highlights destruction to infrastructure including higher education institutions in Sudan and closes with the IIE-SRF statement on the conflict.