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		<title>Extended Deadline for II Photo Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Institute (II) invites you to participate in our annual photo contest. The competition is open to any student affiliated with the II and its centers through an academic program, course, or fellowship/grant and we look forward to seeing the photos you have taken while traveling abroad. Keep in mind that the photos you [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1097&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There and Back Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellaweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been home from Uganda for nearly two weeks now, but I still haven&#8217;t quite figured out the right answer when people ask me about my trip. It&#8217;s difficult to sum everything up and feel like I&#8217;m being fair to the experience, the country, and the people who were so instrumental in both my research [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1083&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lights of Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nazneen Uddin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit on the monorail train heading to work, I gaze at the landscape around me: a multitude of glistening skyscrapers embedded against lush greenery and village homes.  In a span of two minutes, I spot a set of minarets hiding behind a turquoise dome, a red rooftop with gold ornamentation from a Buddhist temple, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1068&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interning with the Oceanic Society in Falalop, Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katecrosman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The off-island sites we visited by speedboat that afternoon were spectacular. Crystal clear water and sun-dappled corals created good habitat for reef dwellers. Stretches of healthy substrate invited baby corals to settle and thrive. And a diversity of fish, including mature grazers like parrotfish and surgeonfish, kept the algae, coral’s number one competitor for space [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1039&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Yi language and the &#8220;Red Fish Girl&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeopper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early during my stay at Yunnan University, my colleague Prof. Liquan Yang gave me over sixty yuyan jianzhi or “Basic Outlines of Languages”. As I noted in an earlier post, I have been browsing these texts for theory-enhancing linguistic phenomena. After several days of browsing, I finally stumbled upon relevant data from the Loloish languages. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1037&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metabolizing Mecca</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>claass</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graduate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hajj pilgrimage is the largest gathering of human beings on the planet and represents one of the most challenging system design problems seriously undertaken by architects. Participation has exploded from 80,000 pilgrims in 1900 to almost 3 million in 2008. Essentially the population of Chicago simultaneously lands in the desert every year, only to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1029&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HIV, Breastfeeding, and Endless Chapatti</title>
		<link>http://iimichigan.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/hiv-breastfeeding-and-endless-chapatti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellaweber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vicki, one of my translators and research assistants, laughs when we see something that surprises me and repeats over and over again, “spend time in Africa!” Today, for instance, we took a taxi which contained sixteen adults, a baby, and a very unhappy chicken. Having completed my first week of research, however, life in Africa [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1016&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Alexis Michaud and the Naish Languages</title>
		<link>http://iimichigan.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/dr-alexis-michaud-and-the-naish-languages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikeopper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of visiting a French linguist, Dr. Alexis Michaud at his temporary home in Lijiang, Yunnan where he is currently conducting long-term fieldwork. Dr. Michaud has done extensive documentation work on three related languages in the Lijiang area: Naxi, Laze, and Yongning Na. The data collected by Dr. Michaud is hosted [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=1006&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to describe ten months?</title>
		<link>http://iimichigan.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/how-to-describe-ten-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Georgia Ennis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I near the end of my grant, I often think I have gained more from my ten months in Ecuador than I have been able to give. One of the primary goals of the Fulbright program is intercultural exchange in order to promote mutual understanding. This idea is highlighted throughout the application process, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=990&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Planning in Micronesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I applied for the International Institute Individual Fellowship because I had the opportunity to intern on Falalop Island, Ulithi Atoll, Micronesia, with the Oceanic Society. Oceanic, a conservation NGO out of San Francisco, was invited to Falalop by the local chiefs to help design a locally implementable climate and fisheries adaptation plan. The community on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iimichigan.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13740153&#038;post=976&#038;subd=iimichigan&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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