experiences make possible. I am fortunate to have been nominated for simply doing something that I love.”

In 2013, Allred partnered with Cornell’s Public Service Center and Southeast Asia Program to create the Global Citizenship and Sustainability (GCS) Program to give students community-based research experience in Southeast Asia. In the first two years of the program, students went to Thailand to research community resiliency in the face of floods in and around Bangkok. Allred was awarded a Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship and an Engaged Faculty Fellowship for the success of the GCS program.

Two years later, Allred combined GCS and a program she had begun in the city of Binghamton, the Rust to Green (R2G) Summer Scholars program, to bring exchange students from Bangkok to Binghamton to work alongsideUSA Network is truly entering a brave new world.

The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has handed out a straight-to-series, 10-episode order for its long-gestating adaptation of Aldous Huxley's iconic book.

First put in development back in 2015 — under former Syfy president Dave Howe — the new take has David Wiener (Homecoming) as writer and showrunner. Wiener joined the project last year and a mini writers room was opened in August. The series will shoot in the U.K. A premiere date has not yet been determined.

First published in 1932, Brave New World ranked fifth among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by Modern Library. The series imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself.

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