Economist Branko Milanovic spoke at the Watson Institute Monday evening about the ideas behind his new book, “Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization.” The intimate, seminar-style lecture was attended by not only undergraduate students but also graduate students, community ...
Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 won the Democratic state primary for the Third Hampshire District seat in Massachusetts Sept. 8. As he is running unopposed in the general election, Goldstein-Rose has effectively won the seat for Massachusetts State Legislature. The district is known for its young population, ...
An exhibit on mental health and substance abuse, organized by students in PHP 1520:“Emergency Medical Systems: An Anatomy of Critical Performance,” opened Wednesday in Faunce. The exhibit includes artwork, poems and data collected from fellow students. The exhibit’s curators aim to provide opportunities ...
Seven University students and one from the Rhode Island School of Design were accepted into the Venture for America Class of 2016. The two-year fellowship program places graduating seniors in startups with the goals of cultivating fellows’ aptitudes for entrepreneurship and jumpstarting the growth ...
Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biologist, gave a talk Wednesday about his research on global development and inequality. The talk, titled “Why did history unfold in different ways on different continents for the last 13,000 years?,” filled the seats of the Salomon Center’s ...
This February, Evan Silver ’16 was chosen from a pool of 162 nominees and 45 finalists as one of 18 Luce Scholars. The Luce Scholars Program every year seeks to recognize potential leaders who have an interest in Asian culture but no extensive exposure to it, barring those who study disciplines relating ...
Researchers from Rhode Island Hospital have found a link between cognitive impairment and epilepsy, according to a study published in the journal Epilepsy and Behavior this month. While epilepsy itself is not always neurodegenerative, the study revealed that those with epilepsy exhibit “much higher ...
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