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PhD student’s research keeps an eye on Palau’s marine life

King Center support helped advance Bianca Santos’s research in Palau, where she is studying the impacts of climate change on small-scale fisheries.

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How can the world’s largest carbon emitters accelerate the transition to renewable energy?

How can two of the largest carbon emitters in the world accelerate their transition to renewable energy?

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Highlighting the experience of migrant domestic workers in the Arab Gulf region

Political science Professor Lisa Blaydes documents the exploitation of migrant women who cook, clean, and care for families in private homes in the Arab Gulf region.

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Kimberly Higuera’s research measures the social impact of remittances

King Center PhD funding recipient Kimberly Higuera’s research explores how the social status of immigrants is impacted by their decision to send money to relatives in Mexico.

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Researcher takes aim at discrimination and intimate partner violence in Bangladesh

Research funding recipient Nina Buchmann is leading ground-breaking work to study and reduce discrimination and domestic violence in Bangladesh

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Rethinking asylum

King Center fellowship recipient Pablo Seward Delaporte studies the tension between migrants in northern Chile and the government’s plans to resettle them.

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Examining the marginalization of Muslims in India

Feyaad Allie, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, has spent the past several years studying discrimination against Muslims in India and how they have responded to their marginalization.

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Undergraduates contribute to research on COVID-19, HIV and infant health

Sophia Nesamoney, ’23, and Keona Blanks, ’24, conducted the research with Stanford pediatrics Professor Gary Darmstadt as part of the King Center’s Academic Year Part-Time Research Assistant Program.

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