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Fall 2021 Semester Update

The Fletcher School plans to return to primarily in-person teaching for the fall of 2021, with a limited number of classes in a hybrid or remote modality. Additional details will be available soon. All planning is subject to Federal, state and local health guidelines.

2021 - A Super-Year for Sustainable Development Diplomacy

Fletcher announces a new executive education series, led by Dean Rachel Kyte.

Entrepreneurship at The Fletcher School

Fletcher students compete in Tufts $100K New Ventures Competition.

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Fletcher Announces 2021 Commencement Speaker

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi slated to deliver keynote remarks.

Fletcher School’s Digital Heroes Sweep Competition

A team of scrappy Fletcher students has taken the world of international cyber contests by storm—and designed real solutions to online threats

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Current Research

People Count: Contract-Tracing Apps and Public Health

Professor Susan Landau offers an introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.

Professor Tom Dannenbaum on Mass Starvation as a Method of Warfare

Current research explores to what degree international law can restrict or prohibit mass starvation as a tactic of war.

Professor Steve Block Explores Cost and Affordability of Nutritious Diets at Retail Prices

Explores Nutrient vs. caloric adequacy: Evidence from 177 countries.

Energy's Digital Future

Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security

Fletcher News

You Say ‘Coup,’ I Say ‘Koo’

Bhaskar Chakravorti states that India is a cautionary tale of the unintended consequences of tech policy that fails to look ahead and anticipate its repercussions, via his op-ed in Foreign Policy.

Professor and Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti

Twilight of the economists? More like twilight of the neoliberals.

Dan Drezner examines the possible decline of economists in the marketplace of ideas, via his Washington Post column.

Professor Dan Drezner

The World Bank should not fund Ethiopia’s war in Tigray

Alex de Waal encourages the World Bank and IMF to use their leverage to end war and starvation in Tigray, via his op-ed in Financial Times.

Biden Poised to Sign Executive Order On Climate Finance

Dean Rachel Kyte speaks with Climatewire about the U.S.' acknowledgement of the relationship between rising temperatures and economic stability.

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We Need a U.S. Climate Law

Kelly Sims Gallagher urges Congress to pass a definitive climate law, via an op-ed for The Hill.

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Fletcher events are currently being offered remotely

FIND Symposium: Refugee Integration in Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda

Apr

20

Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series: Jane Goodall

Apr

28

Virtual Admissions Information Session - Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP)

May

10

Commencement Celebration 2021

May

23

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