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  • Professor returns to Ukraine border, developing virtual tools for refugee aid

Professor returns to Ukraine border, developing virtual tools for refugee aid

Monday, May 16, 2022

Many of the Ukrainian refugees in the transit shelter in Korczowa, Poland, evacuated with their pets. Volunteers provided animal food and vet care.

When the war in Ukraine started in February, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn knew she had to get there. In March, 10 days after the war started, she went to the Poland/Ukrainian border to help with the refugee response.

“My life’s work is to help refugees and to help create a system that works better for them, instead of trapping them in uncertainty,” said Dunn, a geography professor and director of the Center for Refugee Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington. “My research is focused on international humanitarian aid for refugees and displaced people, and I learn by doing, by being there and volunteering.

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