"We can demystify the process of modifying the physical world through community design labs," said Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) Fellow James Moffet during a presentation on May 12.
The prospect of a Trump presidency does not worry Stephen Golub. His apprehension actually goes far deeper than that. In his own words, "it scares me to death." Golub, who is an international development expert and a visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at CEU, explained during a public lecture on May 24 that he was one of many people in the United States who "got it wrong" last year when they said that Trump would not win the Republican nomination.
"I worked on the issue of higher education governance for many years at an NGO in Slovakia before I enrolled in the PhD program," explained Renáta Králiková, "but due to the type of work I was doing (work at an NGO, for the government), I did not have time to research the topic, to look at the big picture, and go more in-depth." That's what she has done as a doctoral student.
"Why do firms based in emerging countries internationalize?" This is the question that Global Challenges Senior Fellow John Luiz sought to answer in a recent paper with Helena Barnard. "Emerging market firms internationalize for many of the same reasons as firms from developed countries," Luiz said during a presentation on May 25. "But they also have other reasons."
"I've been interested in the Domari for some time," explains Yahya Al-Abdullah (MPA '17), "ever since I lived among the community in Aleppo for four years." Al-Abdullah grew up in Aleppo and knows the city well. "I was struck by how these people lived. They were stateless, so they had no access to basic rights or community services," he remembers.
