Afghan students gathered in Mill River Park in Amherst in November 2020 to honor Barbara Gravin Wilbur on her retirement and thank DRE and Gretchen Rossman for their many years of work with Afghan students.
On March 5th, the CIES Board of Directors voted to cancel the on-site portion of the CIES 2020 Annual Conference in Miami due to the Corona virus pandemic.
The Upstander Project's film DAWNLAND won the Emmy® award for Outstanding Research at the 40th annual News and Documentary Awards in Fall 2019. Upstander Project learning Director Mishy Lesser shared the Emmy® award for Outstanding Research with co-directors Adam Mazo & Ben Pender-Cudlip, and editor Kristen Salerno.
Mariam Rashid and Benjamin Scherrer, doctoral students associated with CIE, presented at the UKFIET 2019 conference on “Inclusive Education Systems: Futures, fallacies and finance” in September, 2019 in Oxford, England.