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IIE-SRF fellow Sayed Jafar Ahmadi and his wife Zeinab Musavi were honored with the 2024 American Psychological Association International Humanitarian award for their work providing psychological care and training future psychologists in Afghanistan. Ahmadi is currently undertaking his fellowship at Bard College.

The Cornell Chronicle presents an article and short video about IIE-SRF alumnus Azat Gündoğan, who undertook his fellowship at Cornell and now works as an assistant teaching professor at Florida State University.

IIE CEO Allan Goodman presented the IIE Centennial Medal, which honors individuals and institutions that have made important contributions to international education, to Cornell University on October 20, 2023. The award honors Cornell’s robust and long-standing tradition of hosting displaced and threatened scholars in partnership with IIE-SRF, as well as the university’s involvement with Fulbright, Gilman and other IIIE-administered State Department Programs.

Dr. Kifah Ghazeddin, who undertook his IIE-SRF fellowship in 2020-22, is a biologist at Carleton University in Canada. Noted for his contributions to research on enhancing food production in the face of poverty, he has been welcomed as one of the 2023 new members of the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s highest academic honor.

Nezaami was interviewed by his host Stanford University Law School about leaving Afghanistan to come to Stanford on an IIE-SRF fellowship and his worries for and efforts to give back to those still left behind.

IIE-SRF Director James R. King spoke with the outlet about the program’s efforts to support Yemeni scholars since the outbreak of war in 2014.