Seminar participants Jessica Barnes and Amar Sawhney discuss the many challenges facing India’s informal settlements.

Seminar participants Amar Sawhney and Jessica Barnes discuss why green spaces are so critical to urban planning in Delhi and India’s cities.

CAORC is accepting applications for faculty development seminars with a deadline of August 30, 2021.

Senegal seminar participant Verny Varela highlights the musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised.

Pakistan seminar participant Rajender Kaur discusses the history and legacy of abandoned Sikh temples in Lahore and Islamabad.

Seminar participant Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez discusses India’s challenges and how innovative solutions offer hope in uncertain times.

Senegal participant Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez explains how the legendary baobab tree helped her better understand the country and its people.

Shabana Meyering, participant in the faculty seminar to India, offers her personal reflections on two decades of change in the country.

Faculty seminar participant Kimberly Monroe reflects on the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's hip-hop artists.

Faculty seminar participant Hoa Nguyen discusses how Senegal’s cultural and geographic diversity may be the key to its future prosperity.

Pauline Sullivan, a 2020 seminar participant, discusses how innovative approaches to handicrafts are helping sustain Jordanian communities.

Mukila Maitha, participant in the faculty seminar to India, examines Delhi’s suffocating smog and what is being done to lessen its impact.

Anita Gaul, participant in the Senegal faculty seminar, conveys how the experience transformed her understanding of West Africa.

Joylin Namie, participant in the CAORC faculty seminar to Jordan, discusses challenges to sustainable development in marginal environments.

The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL...

Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019...

Nearly 70 faculty and administrators attended CAORC's workshop at Montgomery College on April 5, Going Global, Growing Global: Fostering...

CAORC sponsored the panel discussion, Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational...

Sippo Island, Toubakouta, Senegal In this essay, Stephanie Lovett, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal,...

The India Faculty Development Seminar group with Dr. Balasubramaniam “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our...