CARTHA IN THE NEWS

We include below a collection of items to help visitors to our website—as well as our own growing network of Carthans—better grasp and understand the context, breadth, influence, and eventual impact generated by academic-practitioner networks of Collaborative Doers working in a variety of disciplines, sectors, regions, and cultural settings.

We have listed below the instances (which we are aware of) where publicity occurred for CARTHA and our programs through our partners and/or individuals who participated in our programs.  In some cases, individuals internally reported their work with CARTHA to institutional heads and/or helped feature the programs undertaken with CARTHA to external constituencies.  In other cases, there are also freely accessible videos posted on our partners’ websites which include our founder’s entire presentation. In yet other instances, audio versions of our programs can be purchased directly from the professional societies (where CARTHA organized conference panels).

2013

• CARTHA Council of Advisor Martin Quiroga (whom CARTHA founder first met at TED 2006 in Monterey, CA) was selected for the 2013 Knight Foundation Fellowship at Stanford University.
• CARTHA Fellow Luke Juran won the Gilbert F. White dissertation prize from the American Association of Geographers.
• CARTHA's very first Fellow Ajailiu Niumai, a sociologist at the University of Hyderabad, was awarded the Raman Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University Grants Commission of the Government of India to spend a year doing research in Iowa.

2012

• CARTHA founder's speech on May 10, 2012 at the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club--where she has been a Rotarian since 2003--was summarized in the Club's weekly newsletter.
• Amie Ohlmann's The Derek Project (a current program of CARTHA) is featured in the context of the literary scene in Iowa City by Jan Weismiller, the owner of a cool bookstore called Prairie Lights.
• The Derek Project and the event on April 19, 2012 with Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey was featured in a news release by the University of Iowa.

2010

• Because of her volunteer service as a member of the Community Foundations Leadership Team for the Council on Foundations, CARTHA founder participated in an exciting event on community philanthropy and social innovation hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House on May 27, 2010.
• CARTHA founder participated in the WorldCanvass radio program hosted by Joan Kjaer on February 12, 2010. You can hear the program by visiting http://www.prx.org/pieces/45180-worldcanvass-india. The program highlighted the perspectives of University of Iowa faculty and students who have participated in the Winterim India programs originally designed in 2006 by CARTHA Ambassador Raj Rajagopal and then-CARTHA Fellow Edwin Brands. Since 2006, CARTHA has supported the Winterim India program in a number of ways by: co-sponsoring seminars and events; co-hosting program partners, donors, and visiting guests; co-designing new curricular modules for incorporation within this program; providing several students with travel stipends for their participation in the 3- week Winterim India experiential courses; and introducing program participants to CARTHA's wider Collaborative Doer networks.
• CARTHA founder, as a member of the Program Committee of the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, introduced speaker at a program on February 3, 2010 featuring the late Dr. Ignacio Ponseti's life of dedication to address Club Foot treatment through non-surgical method.

2009

• CARTHA founder's thought piece (an invited paper) titled “Healthful Academic Translations: Cultivating Collaborative Doers as Innovation Managers for Societal Well-Being” is published in the 2009 Global Forum for Health Research Update (Vol. 6), see Page 66-71 of the publication.


• CARTHA founder participates in the Emerging Technologies/Emerging Economies: (Nano)technology for Equitable Development Conference.


• CARTHA Fellow Ajailiu (“Ajai”) Niumai says in her paper titled “Philanthropy and Indian Diaspora in the 21st Century” presented at the AHRC/CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) Conference 2009 at the University of Surrey, UK, see that her association with CARTHA since 2006 prompted her research interests in these topics. Ajai also mentions CARTHA in a similar manner in her article titled “Indian Diaspora Philanthropy: A Sociological Perspective” which was published in Man in India (a journal in South Africa) in March 2009.


• CARTHA Fellow Luke Juran continued to publicize CARTHA in numerous presentations at academic institutions as well as Rotary Clubs in Iowa and Tamil Nadu (India) during his Rotary Ambassador Scholarship Year.


• CARTHA’s panel titled “Thirsting for Daily Sustenance: Public-Private Partnerships for Global Water-Access” at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was featured in multiple websites, program brochures, and news releases including by the University of Iowa. http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/february/021609water_sanitizer.html

2008

• November 2008: CARTHA Council of Advisor Carlos Lucena alerted us that our “Health Technology Innovations Workshop” in Recife, Brazil in November 2008 sponsored by FIOCRUZ-Pernambuco was announced (in Portuguese) in the SBPC (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência) http://www.sbpcnet.org.br Jornal da Ciência - 1 Workshop de Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde (November 4, 2008). http://www.jornaldaciencia.org.br/Detalhe.jsp?id=59724 Carlos also included CARTHA (specifically the transformative impact of meeting CARTHA Founder at the 2008 annual meeting of the Technology Managers for Global Health) in his internal reports as well as the report of activities he undertook as a result of his Developing Countries Scholarship Award from the Association of University Technology Managers.
• Aman Bhandari posts on his Global Health Ideas blog following his first interview of CARTHA founder in April 2008. http://globalhealthideas.org/2008/05/advancing-the-global-good-through-partnerships-usha-balakrishnan/
• April 30, 2008: CARTHA Founder Usha R. Balakrishnan shares her story during a luncheon keynote presentation at the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. You can view the video of her presentation titled "CARTHA: Global Entrepreneurship with Iowa Roots."
• CARTHA’s conference panel “Humanity at the Nexus: Academic Partnerships and Entrepreneurship in Global Health” at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was featured in multiple program brochures and also included in the Little Devices That Could blog at http://littledevicesthatcould.blogspot.com/2008/02/little-devices-that-could-aaas.html

2007

• Glasgow Caledonian University’s alumni magazine CaledonianPlus Issue No 2 Winter 2007 (Page 7) featured (CARTHA Ambassador) Chris Hillier and highlighted that he also spoke at the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club (a program organized in December 2006 by CARTHA).


• CARTHA hosted Rotarians from India under a Rotary Friendship Exchange Program and organized discussions with University of Iowa faculty, staff, students, and community members. http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/april/043007india-rotarians.html


• CARTHA Fellow Edwin Brands (then-adjunct faculty member in the Geography Department & International Studies Program at the University of Iowa) had co-led with CARTHA Ambassador Raj Rajagopal (Geography Professor at the University of Iowa) a microfinancing and women’s entrepreneurship course in Tamil Nadu, India. The cutting-edge nature of such coursework was featured in: Making a Major Impact with Microfinance, by Sharon Shinn in BizEd Magazine, May/June 2007 (Pg. 26-31), see http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/Archives/MayJun07/26-31_bized.pdf. In addition to providing moral encouragement for Edwin’s efforts, Raj Rajagopal’s family made financial contributions to CARTHA that in turn enabled CARTHA to support a portion of the travel for three of the participating students from the University of Iowa (who would not have otherwise afforded the cost of travel to India). Edwin publicly thanked several organizations (including CARTHA) for supporting the first University of Iowa-Winterim Program to India in his piece published in The Daily Iowan in the Letters to the Editor section on Feb. 7, 2007.

2006

• As a member and program organizer of the Cedar Rapids Section of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), http://ieee-cr-section.org/ Raman Aravamudhan, CEO of Ramaanchar Technologies, Inc. http://www.ramaanchar.com/ invited and publicized CARTHA Founder’s program presentation in their monthly newsletter and on their website.


• CARTHA Founder was a panelist at a Theory-Practice Seminar on Advancing Vaccines: Innovations in Intellectual Property Practice sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy at the Brooklyn Law School, New York City in October 2006. Brooklyn Law School’s publication (Law School Briefs, Summer 2007, Page 11) included highlights of this seminar.