CIE students are encouraged to apply their learning by working with education systems and educators during their studies. Many CIE students are mid-career professionals who undertake consulting or field work as part of their degree program. The articles in this section chronicle professional activities of current students including articles on presentations at professional conferences, and a new series of articles on dissertation research that is under way.
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CIE hosts monthly meetings of an international "Café Without Borders" to bring together a community of graduate students from around the world.
The 67th annual CIES Conference was held in Washington, D.C. in February this year. The conference was organized in an unusual split format: two days online, then a two-day break, followed by five days of in-person conference.
The CIE network was again well represented at the 2022 CIES conference in Minneapolis with nearly 30 CIE/IE graduates, current students and faculty members listed on the program.
ring 2022 Nangyalai Attal received a research grant from the 
The research explores additional funding sources and options for financing public universities in Afghanistan which are faced with exploding demand and limited government resources.
Nangyalai Attal has been awarded a visiting fellowship with the Echidna Global Scholars Program of the Brookings Institute
Pempho Chinkondenji has been awarded the Joyce A. Berkman Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Scholarship.
For the second year in a row, the CIES annual conference was held virtually via Zoom. With the lessons learned from 2020, the conference organizers were able to provide a very smooth and effective platform for participants from anywhere in the world.
Mishka Murad and Mariam Sheikh were both given an Ambassador Cynthia Shepard Perry (pIctured) Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. The award was established to provide support for graduate students in international education or affiliated with the Center for International Education to help them pursue international field work. 
