Orientation begins today for our first-year MPA in Development Practice students.  WELCOME to SIPA!!! 

Today’s photographs were submitted by Houda Sahyoun, a new MPA-DP student and Zinash Seyoum, an incoming MIA stdent.

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Z. Seyoum:

A group of Marabou Stork watching over Lake Hawassa, in the city of Hawassa, Ethiopia.

Home to Emperor Fasilides and his successors in the late 16^th and 17^th centuries, this castle is located in Fasil Ghebbi, a fortress-enclosure in Gondar, Ethiopia.

The Blue Nile Falls, known as ‘Tis Abay’ (smoking water) in Ethiopia. The falls are located approximately 30 km from the town of Bahir Dar

The Church of St. George, or ‘Bete Giyorgis’, one of eleven monolithic churches in the city of Lalibela, Ethiopia. The church was carved from volcanic rock in the twelfth century.

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H. Sahyoun:

In one of the clubs in Beirut City in my beloved country Lebanon, July 2010

Nature is what I love best .. in the Cedar Mountains of Lebanon

Indulging my senses in Venezia, Italy, Feb 2011

On my birthday in Ehden, North Lebanon, July 2010

Photo submissions continue to roll in for our new student photo series.  If you are an incoming student and wish to share your photos on our blog, please review this entry for details on how to submit your photos.

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Today’s first set of photographs were submitted by incoming MIA student, Lauren Sprott

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Abseiling down a waterfall during a canyoning trip in Dalat, Vietnam

Enjoying the expansiveness of the desert while on camel safari in Jaisalmer, India

Promoting U.S. agricultural products during a food show and competition in Hangzhou, China

Trying to make it back home via tuk-tuk after a storm during monsoon season in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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The second set of photographs were submitted by Kristen Jestin, an incoming MIA student.

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In front of Le Sénat, in Paris, France, where I am from.

Under a row of cherry blossoms in Seoul, South Korea where I lived for 5 months last year.

With my grandfather at Lincoln Center, in New York City where I have been living for the past three years to attend Barnard College.

Photo submissions continue to roll in for our new student photo series.  If you are an incoming student and wish to share your photos on our blog, please review this entry for details on how to submit your photos.

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Today’s first set of photographs were submitted by Jesper Frant, incoming MPA-DP student

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Colorado National Monument, Grand Junction, Colorado

To commemorate Independence Day, my boss (U.S. Senator Mark Udall) and I rocked climbed up Otto’s Route to raise the American flag at the summit of Independence Monument, a 550-foot-tall rock spire in the Colorado National Monument. Not bad for a last day on the job.

Hiking in Tabernash, Colorado, with my brother and his twin daughters. They are nearly 3-years-old now. It has been cool watching their personalities develop…they couldn’t be more different.

Sitting on the shoulders of a giant. I spent two years working in and exploring Washington, D.C.

Me at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem during a Birthright Israel trip. I asked an Israeli man why women prayed separately from men and why the women’s section was 1/3 the size of the men’s. His response: “Americans are all about equality.”

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The second set of photographs were submitted by incoming student, Alana Ngoh, MIA

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With a journalist at the Travelport launch press conference in Manama – Manama, Bahrain

In front of the ancient Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the seven wonders of the world – Giza, Egypt

Watching the fishermen on an early morning stroll along the Corniche in Beirut – Beirut, Lebanon

On an impromptu tour with a friendly local in Kathmandu – Kathmandu, Nepal