Modern Greek Studies Association

Cornell Institute for European Studies --Mediterranean Studies

Profile

Year Program Established: 1981
Approximate Number of Students Enrolled (per academic term): 10

Highest Degree or Certificate Offered:

none

Faculty

Professor Gail Holst-Warhaft, Director, Mediterranean Initiative
(independent study)

Resources

Sponsoring Departments/Administrative Entities:

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (grants)

Cornell Institute for European Studies-Mediterranean Initiative

Does the program offer financial support to students? Yes

Does the institution offer financial support to students? Yes

Through grants from Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, students are funded to travel to Greece and assist with research into sustainable water usage.

A graduate course has been developed and is being taught for the fifth time this semester. Involving Greek and Mediterranean water issues ("Water for for a Thirsty World", Biological and Environmental Engineering, 75840), the course has students from Planning, Law, Engineering, and Natural Resources).

A collaboration has been established with the governor of Lasithi, and with Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean, based in Athens, for the renewal and rebuilding of rain-water cisterns on Aegean Islands.

GWP-Med and Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future are co-publishing a volume based on recent research in Mediterranean water scarcity with special section on Greece.