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ELS EXTINCT
“This professorship will enable the
School of Engineering to recruit a
senior faculty member with the expertise
to take our research in alternative
energy concepts to the next level,” says
Dean Linda Abriola. “We are grateful to
the Habers for their investment in excellence
in the field of energy sustainability
at Tufts.”
“We think that Tufts is the perfect
place for a professorship of this type
because of the dean’s flexibility and
because of the school’s ability to
look at a problem such as the world’s
dependence on fossil fuels from a
fresh perspective,” says Haber.
“This is not our grandchildren’s
problem. We hope our gift will
spur others to support Tufts’
efforts to find solutions to one of
the planet’s major challenges.”
— Robert Haber
rEsEarch
strengthen the research infrastructure
upon which new technologies
can be built. “Supporting research
into renewable energy technologies
is key to the development of sustainable
energy policies and programs,”
says Dean Abriola. “The Peter and
Denise Wittich Family Fund will
foster greater collaboration among
faculty from around the university
that has the potential to lead to
major advances in the field.”
As parents of four children, the
Wittiches also have a personal reason
for wanting to encourage faster
progress towards energy sustainability.
“We want to make the world
a better place for our children and
keep the planet as green as possible,”
says Denise Wittich. “That
will require reducing both our fuel
consumption and our reliance on oil
as a major source of energy.”
Winter 2008 News of the Campaign for Tufts
Joint Program in
Human Security
To Be Expanded
A
$6 million gift from the Leir
Foundation will support crossdisciplinary
research and teaching
at the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy and the Friedman School
of Nutrition Science and Policy in the
developing field of human security.
Human security, as it has come to be
termed, encompasses the interaction among
the areas of humanitarian assistance, economic
development, human rights, and
conflict resolution. Tufts University aims to
establish itself, over the next 10 years, as the
world’s premier center for teaching, research,
training, and policy development in the field.
The Leir Foundation grant will bolster
a partnership between the Fletcher and
Friedman schools in this area, enabling the
joint program in human security to hire new
faculty, attract and support the most qualified
students, and more effectively disseminate
research to practitioners internationally. Tufts
researchers in human security currently are
engaged in projects around the world.
The Leir Foundation
continues
the philanthropic
work of the late
industrialist Henry
J. Leir (right), a
longtime friend and
supporter of Tufts
University, whose
bequest established
the Henry J. Leir
Chair in International Humanitarian Studies
at the Fletcher School. Tufts is proud of its
long-term relationship with Leir’s charitable
foundations, and grateful for their exemplary
support to the Fletcher School, the Friedman
School, and the European Center in Talloires,
among other university priorities.
Over five years, the gift will:
• Endow a joint professorship in refugee
and migration studies
• Fund three new faculty positions,
involving interdisciplinary teaching
and research
• Complete the endowment of the
Rosenberg Professorship held by Peter
Walker as director of the Feinstein
International Center at the Friedman
School
• Renovate the offices of Fletcher’s
Institute for Human Security, directed
by Peter Uvin, Henry J. Leir Professor
of International Humanitarian Studies
• Provide scholarships for Ph.D. students
and for students in the joint Master of
Arts in Humanitarian Assistance
(MAHA) program
The aim is to produce scholarship that
makes a real difference in the world, says
the Feinstein International Center’s Peter
Walker. “The constant question we ask about
our research is: So what? How do our research
and teaching impact the communities where
human security is most at risk? How do we
pass it on so people can use it?”
What is needed are scholars at the cutting
edge of current practice who can work
across academic and professional disciplines,
says Uvin, currently academic dean of the
Fletcher School. “There are few such people
in the world, and even fewer places where
they can work,” he adds. “The aim of Tufts is
to be the world center to which people look
when they think of these issues.”
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