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Projects by topic
- How to Dismantle the Starving Artist Business Model
- Designing For Diplomacy: Appropriate Architectural Representation for a U.S. Embassy of the Future and Facade Explorations with parametric Digital Design
- Cross-Cultural Linkages Between Contemporary African American and African Pop Culture
- Cultural Economy in Times of Financial Crisis
- Opportunities in Off-site Manufacturing for Diplomatic Facilities
- Explore BIM and GIS Integration for US Embassies
- Designing For Diplomacy: Security Upgrades for Historically Significant Properties
- Designing for Diplomacy: Net Zero Energy Building Design
- Diplomacy At Sea
- How to Dismantle the Starving Artist Business Model
- Mapping the Greenland Private Sector
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- Design the State Department's IT School of the Future
- How Do Different People Arrive at the Same Conclusion Consistently?
- Impact Analysis of the 10-Year Visa for Chinese Nationals
- S.-Norwegian Arctic Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mapping
- Prioritization of Cost Effective Energy Conservation Measures
- Do Employee Recognition Awards Work?
- Entrepreneurship Across the Western Hemisphere
- Cultural Economy in Times of Financial Crisis
- Opportunities in Off-site Manufacturing for Diplomatic Facilities
- Advancing Global Women's Economic Empowerment: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Future Engagement
- Changing Landscape of the Satellite Industry
- How Can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Scientific Herstory: An Elevation and Celebration – through Social Media – of American Women’s Contributions in STEM Fields
- Science Rules!: An Investigation into the Rules and Norms of Scientific Integrity
- Follow the Money: A Statistical Investigation into the Relationship between Funding Levels, Cooperation, and Science & Technology Agreements
- Open Science Policies and Perceptions in Asia Pacific
- Attack of the Mega-Science!: Design A Survey of International Research and Development Infrastructure Projects
- Can You See Me Now? – Identifying Camera Problems Autonomously
- Promoting Collaborative Science in Indonesia: Best International Practices for Policymakers
- Strengthening Embassies’ Capacity to Advance Internet Freedom and Business and Human Rights in Information and Communication Technology Companies
- Design the State Department's IT School of the Future
- Implementing Exit Controls on the US Mexico Border
- Smartphone APP for U.S. History in the Azores
- Climate Change Modelling for Southern Africa
- Utilizing Technology to Access Potential Students and Exchange Participants in Remote, Socially Conservative Regions
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Global Attitudes on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Developing a Collaborative, Technology-driven Border Management Construct between the United States and Mexico
- Changing Landscape of the Satellite Industry
- Explore BIM and GIS Integration for US Embassies
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems as a Tool to Increase Global Preparedness
- Downstream Impact of Upstream Mekong Dams
- Space Exploration: Space Diplomacy Framework
- Designing For Diplomacy: Security Upgrades for Historically Significant Properties
- Designing for Diplomacy: Net Zero Energy Building Design
- Participatory Science during Crisis: COVID-19 and the Citizen Scientist
- How Can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Analyzing Risk Communication and Behavioral Change During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of Cabo Verde’s Graduation: Contributions and the Price of Graduating from Low-Income to Middle-Income
- Mapping the Greenland Private Sector
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- Understanding Perceptions of U.S. Economic Investment in Singapore and Southeast Asia
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- S.-Norwegian Arctic Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mapping
- Entrepreneurship Across the Western Hemisphere
- Advancing Global Women's Economic Empowerment: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Future Engagement
- Changing Landscape of the Satellite Industry
- Modeling the Effect of a Nation's Fragility and Vulnerability on its Wealth
- What is the impact of exchange programs on communities around the world?
- Space Exploration: Space Diplomacy Framework
- External Evaluation of Kosovo’s American Corners Program
- We Come from the Land of the Ice and Snow: A Network to Connect Arctic Museums
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- Smartphone APP for U.S. History in the Azores
- Increasing Student Mobility between the U.S. and UK
- Cross-Cultural Linkages Between Contemporary African American and African Pop Culture
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Confucius Institutes
- Utilizing Technology to Access Potential Students and Exchange Participants in Remote, Socially Conservative Regions
- What are the dynamics of network creation and sustainability among exchange participants?
- What is the impact of exchange programs on communities around the world?
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems as a Tool to Increase Global Preparedness
- Participatory Science during Crisis: COVID-19 and the Citizen Scientist
- How Can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Analyzing Risk Communication and Behavioral Change During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- The U.S. Government and Gender-Inclusive Peace
- Strengthening Embassies’ Capacity to Advance Internet Freedom and Business and Human Rights in Information and Communication Technology Companies
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Global Attitudes on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan
- Locked Up Abroad: The Responses and Strategies of Advocates for Hostages and Detainees
- Gender in the Great Power Competition
- Virtual Public Programming in Conflict Zones: Propositions, Effectiveness, and Challenges
- Restorative Justice and Mediation
- Building ASEAN Identity Within Member State Sovereignty
- Southeast Asia Regional Maritime Law Enforcement Cooperation
- Utilizing Visa Restrictions to Mitigate Tension and the Risk of Political Instability
- Engaging the Social Work Discipline in Countering Violent Extremism
- What are the dynamics of network creation and sustainability among exchange participants?
- Advancing Global Women's Economic Empowerment: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Future Engagement
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems as a Tool to Increase Global Preparedness
- Modeling the Effect of a Nation's Fragility and Vulnerability on its Wealth
- What is the impact of exchange programs on communities around the world?
- Space Exploration: Space Diplomacy Framework
- Diplomacy At Sea
- Participatory Science during Crisis: COVID-19 and the Citizen Scientist
- How Can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Analyzing Risk Communication and Behavioral Change During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- Transnational Crime in South Asia - Wildlife Trafficking
- Review of Alternatives to Incarceration Efforts Worldwide
- Safety First
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- Restorative Justice and Mediation
- Implementing Exit Controls on the US Mexico Border
- The Overstay Mentality: Understanding Unlawful Immigration of Cabo Verdeans
- Southeast Asia Regional Maritime Law Enforcement Cooperation
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Developing a Collaborative, Technology-driven Border Management Construct between the United States and Mexico
- Analyzing Existing Laws on Money Laundering in the Western Hemisphere
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- Sexual Violence in Lithuania: The Power of Research to Change Laws and Lives
- Gender in the Great Power Competition
- Open Source Analysis of Student Wing Violence in Bangladesh 2009 – 2019
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- SA’s Protests and the Traditions of Non-Violence
- Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of Cabo Verde’s Graduation: Contributions and the Price of Graduating from Low-Income to Middle-Income
- Strengthening Embassies’ Capacity to Advance Internet Freedom and Business and Human Rights in Information and Communication Technology Companies
- Who is spreading Disinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Impact Analysis of the 10-Year Visa for Chinese Nationals
- Marketing & Message Testing for Public Diplomacy
- Indo Pacific Narcotics Trafficking
- Building ASEAN Identity Within Member State Sovereignty
- China's Domestic Drug Problems
- Political Parties in Elections: Exploring Hybrid Possibilities Between “Individual Merit” and Parliamentary Electoral Models in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- Supporting Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
- Utilizing Visa Restrictions to Mitigate Tension and the Risk of Political Instability
- Engaging the Social Work Discipline in Countering Violent Extremism
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Analyzing Existing Laws on Money Laundering in the Western Hemisphere
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan
- Sexual Violence in Lithuania: The Power of Research to Change Laws and Lives
- Transnational Crime in South Asia - Wildlife Trafficking
- We Come from the Land of the Ice and Snow: A Network to Connect Arctic Museums
- Malaysia: Meeting Energy Demand through New Sources and Smart Consumption
- Climate Change Modelling for Southern Africa
- Prioritization of Cost Effective Energy Conservation Measures
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems as a Tool to Increase Global Preparedness
- Downstream Impact of Upstream Mekong Dams
- Designing for Diplomacy: Net Zero Energy Building Design
- Scientific Herstory: An Elevation and Celebration – through Social Media – of American Women’s Contributions in STEM Fields
- External Evaluation of Kosovo’s American Corners Program
- Explain A Complicated Process - Passport Website Instructional Videos
- We Come from the Land of the Ice and Snow: A Network to Connect Arctic Museums
- Understanding Perceptions of U.S. Economic Investment in Singapore and Southeast Asia
- Who is spreading Disinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- How Do Different People Arrive at the Same Conclusion Consistently?
- Smartphone APP for U.S. History in the Azores
- Marketing & Message Testing for Public Diplomacy
- What are the dynamics of network creation and sustainability among exchange participants?
- How Can Gaming Help Prepare Us for the Next COVID-19?
- Analyzing Risk Communication and Behavioral Change During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Projects by world region
- Safety First
- Police Accountability in Africa: Mapping and Analysis of External Police Oversight Mechanisms
- SA’s Protests and the Traditions of Non-Violence
- Restorative Justice and Mediation
- Evaluating the Process and Outcomes of Cabo Verde’s Graduation: Contributions and the Price of Graduating from Low-Income to Middle-Income
- Investment Climate Trends in the Investment Climate Statements for Sub-Saharan African
- The Overstay Mentality: Understanding Unlawful Immigration of Cabo Verdeans
- Who is spreading Disinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Cross-Cultural Linkages Between Contemporary African American and African Pop Culture
- Climate Change Modelling for Southern Africa
- Political Parties in Elections: Exploring Hybrid Possibilities Between “Individual Merit” and Parliamentary Electoral Models in the Kingdom of Eswatini
- Implementing Exit Controls on the US Mexico Border
- How Do Different People Arrive at the Same Conclusion Consistently?
- Entrepreneurship Across the Western Hemisphere
- Developing a Collaborative, Technology-driven Border Management Construct between the United States and Mexico
- Analyzing Existing Laws on Money Laundering in the Western Hemisphere
- Comparative Study on Smuggling and Trafficking Laws in the Western Hemisphere
- Modeling the Effect of a Nation's Fragility and Vulnerability on its Wealth
- Open Science Policies and Perceptions in Asia Pacific
- Open Source Analysis of Student Wing Violence in Bangladesh 2009 – 2019
- Promoting Collaborative Science in Indonesia: Best International Practices for Policymakers
- Understanding Perceptions of U.S. Economic Investment in Singapore and Southeast Asia
- Impact Analysis of the 10-Year Visa for Chinese Nationals
- Malaysia: Meeting Energy Demand through New Sources and Smart Consumption
- Indo Pacific Narcotics Trafficking
- Building ASEAN Identity Within Member State Sovereignty
- China's Domestic Drug Problems
- Southeast Asia Regional Maritime Law Enforcement Cooperation
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Confucius Institutes
- Innovative Approaches to Documenting IUU Fishing and Marine Destruction in the Philippines
- Downstream Impact of Upstream Mekong Dams
- External Evaluation of Kosovo’s American Corners Program
- Virtual Public Programming in Conflict Zones: Propositions, Effectiveness, and Challenges
- Mapping the Greenland Private Sector
- Smartphone APP for U.S. History in the Azores
- S.-Norwegian Arctic Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Mapping
- Increasing Student Mobility between the U.S. and UK
- SHIFT: Initiating Legal and Socio-Cultural Transformation of Attitudes towards Sexual Violence
- Sexual Violence in Lithuania: The Power of Research to Change Laws and Lives
- Determine the Value of Kuwaiti Educational and Medical Travel (and Possibly Shrink the U.S. Trade Deficit)
- Utilizing Technology to Access Potential Students and Exchange Participants in Remote, Socially Conservative Regions
- Supporting Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
- Eradicating Bacha Bazi Exploitation in Afghanistan
- Cultural Economy in Times of Financial Crisis
- Safe Transportation Options for Women in Pakistan