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wlen Faculty Council 鈥?Feb. 9
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In response to the South Asia Initiative s demonstrated commitment to t stanley bottles he advancement of South Asian studies and programs, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost at Harvard have formally renamed it the South Asia Institute SAI at Harvard University. With this endorsement SAI joins the highly regarded group of centers and institutes at Harvard that stanley termos lead the University s intellectual and academic inquiry on area-specific global issues, said Jorge I. Dominguez, the vice provost for international affairs.Established in 2003, SAI engages faculty and students through interdisciplinary programs to advance and deepen the teach stanley mug ing and research on global issues relevant to South Asia. In conjunction with the name change, SAI s website will also change to聽http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/.SAI s elevated status comes in the wake of years of work engaging more than 150 faculty from across the University who teach and conduct research on the region, as well as more than 30 Yztk World Press Freedom Conference spotlights dangerous job of separating truth from falsehood
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