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September 12, 2016
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Twenty-seven civil society activists, researchers, and practitioners from 20 countries traveled to Budapest last week to participate in an executive course on the opportunities and challenges to drug policy reform after the April 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs. The workshop, which was funded by the Open Society Foundations, was organized by the Global Policy Academy at CEU's School of Public Policy.

September 5, 2016
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SPP Assistant Professor Anand Murugesan is spending this summer in India conducting research that combines ethnographic and experimental evidence for an interdisciplinary project that has been funded by CEU's Intellectual Themes Initiative. "The focus of our work," explains Murugesan, "is to examine the beliefs that foster dishonest or cooperative behavior across cultures.

July 20, 2016
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Savithar Chiarapong, Thailand
Mundus MAPP candidate,
Class of 2017

Intern, Central Bank of Hungary, Budapest

Chiarapong didn't have to travel far for her internship at the Central Bank of Hungary. It did take some work to find, though. She received guidance and assistance from Mundus MAPP Senior Program Manager Heni Griecs, CEU professors, and SPP's Office of Career Services.

July 20, 2016
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Naiyuan Zhou, China
Mundus MAPP candidate,
Class of 2017

Intern, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris