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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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July 22, 2020
Education
Higher Education Webinar: Campus Health and Safety
Preeti N. Malani, chief health officer and professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Michigan, discusses campus health and safety measures to be taken for the …
May 14, 2020
"The World: A Brief Introduction" by Richard N. Haass
Please join Richard Haass as he discusses The World: A Brief Introduction, his new book designed to provide readers of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they ne…
December 10, 2019
Education
Foreign Money in U.S. Universities: Implications for Academic Freedom and National Security
Speakers discuss the power yielded by foreign governments through large donations to U.S. universities, the proliferation of government-funded Confucius Institutes on campuses, and the potential thre…
October 15, 2019
Russia
Eyewitness to History: Reagan and Gorbachev at Reykjavik
Panelists provide first-hand accounts of the 1986 Reykjavik Summit with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and discuss how the Cold War–era meeting shaped future U.S.-Ru…
April 18, 2019
Infectious Diseases
The Simple Solution That Saved Fifty-Four Million Lives
In 1968, two recent U.S. medical school graduates working in Dhaka, Bangladesh, developed oral rehydration solution—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt—that the British medical journal the Lancet has…
