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Vol. 2, Issue 4
IR Senior Chiney Ogwumike Has a Bright Future with the Connecticut Sun SGS congratulates Chiney Ogwumike and the Stanford women’s basketball team on yet another unforgettable and amazing season, having made it to the national semifinals at the NCAA Final Four in Nashville, Tennessee. Throughout the season, senior Ogwumike has helped lead the team with her discipline on the court and in the classroom. Stanford Magazine recently featured Ogwumike and looked into how she balances her commitments to the team with her studies in International Relations, all the while facing the many difficult decisions seniors face as they near graduation. “The time dedicated to sports shouldn’t obscure the best of what Stanford offers students: getting your feet under you for any International Relations major and women's basketball star Chiney Ogwumike (Linda A. Cicero, Stanford kind of future,” she says in the article. University News Service)
As an international relations major Ogwumike specialized in Africa and Comparative International Governance, and completed an internship in Nigeria to fulfill the program's overseas experience requirement. "Chiney had the unique opportunity to assist with numerous projects during her time in Nigeria, including helping to organize conferences for the Nigerian National Assembly and working with Mr. Eric Atuanya, the Senior Special Advisor to the Minister of Petroleum for the Nigerian government," commented Christelle Sheldon, International Relations Program Manager. The April 6 game marked the end of an incredible collegiate basketball career for Ogwumike, who’ll not only be leaving Stanford for the Connecticut Sun as the top overall draft pick in the WNBA, but also as an alumna heading toward the opportunities four years at Stanford afford all our graduates. The feature article on Chiney Ogwumike can be found in the March/April issue of Stanford Magazine and on its website ( http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_ id=68846). ]
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African Studies Contributes to GSB Health Care Study
From left to right: Jess Auerbach, Laura Hubbard, Mark Gardiner, Assistant Director for the Global Supply Chain Management Forum Davis Albohm, Vanessa Watters, and CAS Ford Dorsey Dissertation Research Fellow Ken Opalo
Center for African Studies (CAS) Associate Director Laura Hubbard and several CAS student affiliates traveled to Zambia last summer with a team of Stanford researchers studying the role of transportation in health care worker productivity. The cross-campus team, led by the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), focused its study on Riders for Health, a U.K.based social enterprise that manages fleets of vehicles in Zambia and other African countries as a means to support health care networks in rural communities.
Commenting on the variety of work the CAS team did, Hubbard noted, “At one point I was doing participant observation in a rural health center that was experiencing a drug inventory issue, while Jess Auerbach (doctoral candidate in Anthropology) was participating in ride-a-longs with the district vehicles that were to service that clinic. At the same time, Mark Gardiner (doctoral candidate in Anthropology) was at the district offices with procurement officials and others responsible for distribution logistics and resource allocation. Simultaneously, Vanessa Watters (MA ’12, African Studies) was shadowing health care workers, observing daily how they handled lack of medicines and other supplies.”
“This research effort brought together qualitative researchers from CAS with the quantitative research team and intellectual leadership of the Global Supply Chain Management Forum,” said Hubbard when asked to reflect on the trip and research. The team’s ability to communicate across these sites and subject positions gave the larger research team a fuller picture With deep area expertise provided by CAS students, staff and than a single researcher might have been able to deliver in the faculty, the project highlights the role that SGS programs and same period of time. centers play in many global initiatives at Stanford, while broadening interdisciplinary approaches to area studies “I believe our most important contribution to the project was research. to share with the GSB-based researchers the creative and always social practices and networks built by the incredible “The team consisted of a CAS alumnus, researchers at the GSB, and dedicated Zambian health care professionals to ensure me, and three CAS anthropology graduate students,” said health care at even the furthest outreach posts of the country,” Hubbard. “We mentored one another through constant said Hubbard. feedback and exchange—an incredible example of the possibilities of collaboration.” For more details on the study visit https://www.gsb.stanford. edu/scforum/zambia-health-research, and the Stanford Business The qualitative researchers on the CAS team each focused on Magazine article, “A Team of Researchers Explores Health Care different aspects of the health services delivery supply chain Delivery in Africa” (Autumn 2013). and were responsible for writing their own field notes, and reading each other’s, every day. To learn more about the Center for African Studies visit africanstudies.stanford.edu. ]
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Program in Iranian Studies Announces Inaugural Recipient of the Bita Prize for Young Persian Artists for Young Persian Artists. She performed for over 300 attendees at the stunning Bing Concert Hall, selecting arrangements from Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff. Taherianfar began taking piano lessons when she was six. Her debut concert was held in the renowned Roudaki Concert Hall of Tehran in 2008 when she was only 12 years old. At her teacher’s suggestion, she moved to Vienna where she continued her studies at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory. Taherianfar has won numerous national and international prizes. She performed at the Gala Concert in the “Music House” in Vienna, and won two first prizes in the Austrian Youth Competitions “Prima La Musica.” She also won first prizes at the international competition “Concours Flame 2011” in Paris, “Valsesia Musica 2012” in Italy, and the “21st Century Art 2013” in Vienna. “Dena Taherianfar embodies the talent, discipline, dedication and early accomplishments celebrated and supported by the Bita Prize,” said Abbas Milani, the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies.
For additional information about Ms. Dena Taherianfar, visit her website at http://denataherianfar.wix.com/dena.
Each year the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies issues the Bita Prize for Persian Letters, which recognizes and celebrates a lifetime of artistic achievement and is given to an artist of Iranian ancestry. The recipients of this award have been some of the most prominent Iranian writers, poets, vocalists, and playwrights of today—from the first poet laureate “of the people” Mohammad Reza Shajarian to the eminent filmmaker and playwright Bahram Beyzaie to acclaimed writer and translator Mahshid Amirshahy. This year, the Program in Iranian Studies has introduced a second award—this one aimed at identifying and developing the careers of young Persian artists. Both prizes are made possible through the Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters. “We must celebrate the work of young Persian artists and help them realize their full potential,” said benefactor Bita Daryabari. “They should, in their efforts, achieve excellence and know they are not alone, that the entire community supports their achievements and talents.” On March 12, Dena Taherianfar, a seventeen-year-old concert pianist from Tehran, Iran, received the inaugural Bita Prize
“This award will be my greatest incentive to finding the meaning of life through music,” responded Taherianfar upon receiving the prize. “I hope I will be the person who one day inspires other young Persian artists—those who are not known by anyone, have not been supported, and have no resources except the gift of music within them.” The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies fosters the interdisciplinary study of Iran as a civilization. Each academic year, the Program offers undergraduate courses related to Iran in such disciplines as language, literature, economics, and political science. It provides a wealth of events for scholars, students and the general public. For additional information about the program, please visit http://iranianstudies.stanford.edu.]
SGS Scholars Analyze Iran and Israel in The New York Times Abbas Milani, Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, and Israel Waismel-Manor, the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor in Israel Studies, recently published "Are Iran and Israel Trading Places?" in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/sunday/areiran-and-israel-trading-places.html
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