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Penn School of Arts and Sciences Monday, April 9, 2018


CASI in the News

CASI Director Devesh Kapur was quoted in an April 6, 2018 BBC Capital article by Jessica Bateman titled "How Greece is Reversing Brain Drain."

Additionally, Professor Kapur published "India’s Central Universities Have Modern Sensibilities, But Are Also Deeply Conservative" in the April 4, 2018 issue of The Print.


Innovating for the System: What Makes Educational Innovations Scalable?

Rohan Sandhu
April 9, 2018

In this issue of India in Transition, Rohan Sandhu, Associate Director, International Innovation Corps, University of Chicago, discusses how innovations in education can be scaled to have system-wide impact.

Full Article

*Interested in writing for IiT? Now open for submissions*


CASI Student Programs

CASI will be announcing the 2018 Summer Interns, Travel Funds Recipients, and 2018-19 Sobti Family Fellow in the coming weeks. Thank you to all who applied!

View the CASI Student Programs Video and read the blog to learn more about CASI student experiences in India! Follow CASI Student Programs on Instagram @casistudentprograms

Questions about CASI Student Programs?
Please contact Aparna Wilder, Associate Director, CASI Student Programs and Outreach apwilder@sas.upenn.edu


Upcoming Seminars

April 19, 2018, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI

"How India Became Democratic"

CASI Seminar with Ornit Shani - Lecturer, University of Haifa

 

April 24, 2018, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI

"Becoming and Staying Middle Class in Contemporarty India: The Role of Sex Selection and Other Family Strategies"

CASI Seminar with Ravinder Kaur - Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; and CASI Spring 2018 Visiting Scholar


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