If you haven’t yet read the January edition of the Inside SIPA newsletter, this is your chance. Features include a review on the experiences of six SIPA students who became trapped in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during the devastating earthquake that struck that country on January 12. Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, director of SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program, and the students were in Haiti on a UN study trip and all returned home safely on January 15. SIPA alumna Michele Wucker (MIA ‘93), director of the World Policy Institute, appeared on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” to discuss the Haiti earthquake and her book, Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola.

Other SIPA professors in the news recently include Stuart Gottlieb on preventing terrorist attacks in the New York Times, Seth Freeman on Copenhagen and the “Global Trust Problem” in the Christian Science Monitor, and Rodolfo de la Garza on Mexican drug violence and the U.S. response on WorldFocus.

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