Registration is now open for non-degree (guest) student registration for online or remote GLPP classes! Check out these two GLPP courses from the images below or with the link below🤝✨📚 Click here for the non-degree application and more information: www.umb.edu/registrar/re...

📘 CPDD’s 2025–26 Annual Report is here! Read the full annual report and learn more about what CPDD has accomplished this year—and what’s ahead! 🌎 sites.google.com/umb.edu/cpdd...

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Congratulations to Sahar Badiezadeh, PhD student in GGHS on the publication of her new co-authored, peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health! 🎉 Congratulations, Sahar, on this wonderful accomplishment! 👏 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Post-Migration Stressors and Health Vulnerabilities Among Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Türkiye - Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

This phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers navigating health and social support in Türkiye. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured ...

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Thank you to everyone who has already registered for the 2026 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professorship Lecture & Discussion on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Haven’t registered yet? Please sign up for this free event here: gqr.sh/XxTZ. We hope you will join us!

Congratulations to Dr. James Kintu, PhD in Global Governance and Human Security on his recent article in New Security Beat! 🌍👏 🔗Check it out with the link below! www.newsecuritybeat.org/2026/08/unen...

Unenforced Rules in Uganda’s Sugar Sector: Food Insecurity and Climate Change

In Uganda’s Busoga kingdom, seven sugar mills process the sugarcane grown on roughly 110,000 hectares in the region. The growth in this activity has been significant; the territory now comprises [...]

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🎉 Congratulations to GGHS alumni Dr. Pryanka Peñafiel Cevallos and Dr. David Sulewski on their well-deserved recognition from the Peace & Justice Studies Association! We’re so proud to celebrate the accomplishments and continued scholarship of our GGHS community.

We’re excited to highlight “Health as the Embodiment of Climate Inequity: Evidence from Communities of Color in Greater Boston,” a new publication supported by the Sustainable Solutions Lab and co-authored by doctoral students! 🌍 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321526001459

Health as the embodiment of climate inequity: Evidence from communities of color in Greater Boston

Climate change poses uneven health risks across racially and ethnically diverse communities. This qualitative study examined how Asian American, Black…

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A recent article by Adebobola Omowon, Doctoral Candidate in Conflict Resolution, Global Governance, and Human Security at UMass Boston and Fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD), is now featured on CPDD’s PaxBlog. 🔗 Check it out here! blogs.umb.edu/paxblog/2026...

Check it out! How #trains can transform #PersianGulf #politics and #global #security @umassboston.bsky.social @conresglobal.bsky.social @mccormackgradatumb.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-trains-c...

How trains can transform Persian Gulf politics and global security

Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia.

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🎉 Congratulations to Stacy VanDeveer, Professor of Global Governance and Human Security, and Firmesk Rahim, Ph.D. student, on the publication of their latest article in The Conversation! 👏 Join us in congratulating them on this wonderful accomplishment! 🔗 theconversation.com/how-trains-c...

How trains can transform Persian Gulf politics and global security

Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia.

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Congratulations to Alhassan Tahiru, a Global Governance and Human Security doctoral student at UMass Boston, on the publication of his latest blog for New Security Beat. Read the full blog here: 🔗 www.newsecuritybeat.org/2026/07/when...

When the Rivers Heal: Child Welfare and Ghana’s Anti Galamsey Fight

In Ghana, illegal mining is commonly known as “galamsey,” derived from the phrase “gather them and sell.” It is an informal and unregulated small-scale mining activity that provides alternative [...]

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Congratulations to Stacy VanDeveer and the author team on the publication of their new online commentary, “Precaution Means Non-Use: A Response to UNEP’s Working Paper on Solar Radiation Modification.” Read the full commentary at the link below🔗 www.solargeoeng.org/precaution-m...

Precaution Means Non-Use: A Response to UNEP’s Working Paper on Solar Radiation Modification - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement

On 12 May 2026, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a working paper presented as a synthesis of the current state of scientific knowledge on solar radiation modification (SRM). It...

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Congratulations to Dr. Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy (CWPPP), on being featured extensively in a recent Bay State Banner article highlighting the Center’s collaborative research with the Boston Women’s Fund. baystatebanner.com/2026/07/01/b...

Congratulations to Nnaemeka Phil Eke-Ochoka on the publication of his online commentary, Blaming the Weather for the Fire, in African Arguments. Read the full commentary at the link below🔗 africanarguments.org/2026/06/blam...

Blaming the weather for the fire | African Arguments

Nigeria’s terrorism crisis has deeper roots than Tinubu admitted in London On March 19th, the president undertook a historic two-day trip to London, the first by a Nigerian leader in nearly 40 years. ...

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Wood Lecture Event Registration🔗 www.umb.edu/events/event...

📅 Save the Date! Join us for the 2026 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professorship Lecture, on September 23, 2026. 🕔 5:00 PM – Lecture & Discussion 📍 Ballroom, Campus Center, UMass Boston 🕡 6:45 PM – Reception 📍 Alumni Lounge, Campus Center, UMass Boston This event is free and open to the public!

Congratulations to Afia on being selected for the 2026–2027 Mercatus Fellowship through the Mercatus Center at George Mason University!

Congratulations to Buket Altınçelep, Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance and Human Security, on her new piece in The Conversation, “Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous People — and they may not have any recourse.” 🌎🌿 Read here: theconversation.com/efforts-to-c...

Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have any recourse

Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.

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Afsana Alam spoke at the TEDx UMass Boston event, delivering a talk titled “Belonging in More Than One World.” Drawing from her personal journey as a woman of color, the talk explored what it means to navigate multiple identities, cultures, and spaces while searching for a sense of belonging.👏🎉✨

🎙️ CPDD’s second episode of PaxGlobal Voices is now available! Listen now and subscribe to PaxGlobal Voices so you don’t miss these engaging talks!🌍 🔗https://open.spotify.com/show/3zTTmkSuAoDmuZfTAjRQVm

Congratulations to all of our award recipients and graduates! 🎉🎓 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the McCormack Graduate School Awards Ceremony as we celebrated the hard work, achievements, and dedication of our students. We are proud of all that you have accomplished👏

Congratulations to Charla M. Burnett on the recent publication of Global Land-Ocean Geospatial Applications: Mapping and Surveying with Remote Sensing and GIS! 🌍

Save the date! 2026 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professorship 🗓 Wednesday, September 23, 2026 🕔 5:00 PM | Lecture & Discussion 📍 Ballroom, Campus Center, UMass Boston 🥂 6:45 PM | Reception 📍 Alumni Lounge, Campus Center, UMass Boston Free and open to the public.

Applications are now open for the 2026 Wood Student Internship in Public & Urban Affairs! 🌟 🗓️ Apply by May 22, 2026 at 5 PM 📍 Hybrid format ⏰ Approx. 10 hours/week Apply here: 🔗https://umassboston.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2mZwxkGjhiaMtqS

Celebrating excellence, resilience, and community at the 8th Annual Ubuntu Graduation & Awards Ceremony. 🌍🎓 Congrats to James Kintu, recipient of the African Scholars Student Research Award, and to all graduates and Kente stole honorees embodying the spirit of Ubuntu: “I am because we are.” ✨

Congratulations to our March 2026 Essay Competition winners, Elham Hesari and Sampurna Basu! 🎉 As part of the McCormack Graduate School’s monthly essay competition, graduate students across the College of Liberal Arts were invited to share their ideas on “How I Would Fix Massachusetts/Boston.”🎉📚👏

Congratulations to Beth McHugh, MPA candidate at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, for earning this year’s Best Capstone title at the annual New England ASPA Capstone Competition! 🎉 Congratulations Beth!👏✨📚

Celebrating great scholarship🎉 GGHS doctoral student Firmesk—also a UMass Boston alum and former Fulbright scholar—has published her latest article! 🔗https://theconversation.com/gulf-state-cooperation-has-long-been-shaped-by-the-threat-of-iran-but-shows-of-unity-belie-division-280692

Happening today! Ubuntu graduation ceremony! Come join us & register with the QR code!📚✨🎉

Room Change Update‼️ Our MGS Graduation Awards Ceremony has an update in location!🎓✨ Please see flyer for details🎉 🔗https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/v34h44h?source_id=b9437df9-83a1-42c3-af08-a6cebaba1e48&source_type=em&c=Jr1GhDvjmkIhISNpkJJ0FjRIwuhyxPgWgRdKtwhxeblwPPc9586fVQ==