Several of us from the United Planet team met in Harvard Square last Sunday to see the Boston Dragon Boat Festival. The descendant of an ancient Chinese celebration, the Boston festival features dance, martial arts, food from local restaurants, and of course the main event, the Dragon Boat races. A Dragon Boat is about 20 [...]

(from Tracy Curtin, Director of Communications) I just returned from the 60th annual NAFSA conference held in Washington, D.C. NAFSA is the national organization which represents, and is comprised of, organizations dedicated to promoting international education. D.C. is the city where I was born and worked for more than 11 years after I graduated from [...]

Last week in Nepal, delegates of the various political parties voted to abolish the monarchy and convert the country into a republic. Until the vote, Nepal was the world’s last remaining Hindu kingdom. Recent decades have been tumultuous for Nepal – a Maoist uprising that began in 1996 lasted a decade before a tenuous peace [...]