Students Soar at Thunderbird
By Alton Buland and
Abby Lackman

Five SAIS students sat down for turkey dinner this past month with 20,000 new reasons to be thankful. On November 10, Tania Askins, Michael Ralles, Sarah Rotman, Genevieve Taft, and team leader Chris Meyer won the second Sustainable Innovation Summit Challenge hosted by the Thunderbird School of Global Management, pocketing a $20,000 first place prize.

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Letter from
the Editors

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since three ambitious SAIS students set out to change the world – or at least the campus - when they took the reins of the SAIS Observer last January.

But now it’s time for your editors – Alex Selim, Jess Stahl and Neil Shenai – to recede into the sunset of our retired civilian life at SAIS, and pass the torch to a new group of as-yet-unjaded editors.

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Going Beyond the Books in Japan
By Lauren Witlin

Rather than strolling through Tokyo indulging in sushi and tea, the students in Professor Deming's U.S.-Japan Relations In Global Context class found themselves dashing from meeting to meeting as they moved through an impressive roster of Japanese officials and private sector elites.