Countering Nigeria's Humanitarian Crisis
Margee Ensign, president of the American University of Nigeria, came to campus to discuss her institution’s extensive efforts for refugees from the Boko Haram uprising in Northern Nigeria. The university and the Adamawa Peace Initiative have effectively housed and fed more than 400,000 refugees in the past few years and they are providing an education to 22,000 youths unable to attend their hometown schools. Read More …
Speaker Urges More Nuanced View on Israel
Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist at the Wall Street Journal, was recently interviewed by Steven Cook '90 of the Council on Foreign Relations on the topic, "Why I Support Israel and Why You Should Too." Stephens argued that no country’s politics are pristine, yet Israel—despite its contributions to the region and the world—is held to a higher standard than other democracies. Read More …
The Wild Life of Our Bodies
This year’s freshman common reading selection, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by biologist Rob Dunn, was expanded through the creation of a “bioart” installation—20/20 Biome. The exhibition features microbes of the Class of 2020 cultured on individual Petri dishes which are displayed, stained glass-style, at the Bridge for Laboratory Sciences. Read More …
Kathryn Tolbert '74 Tells Untold Stories of Japanese War Brides
With the aid of a Time-Out Grant, Kathryn Tolbert ’74 took a yearlong leave of absence from her work as a senior editor at the Washington Post to focus on a project to document the stories of Japanese war brides. The newspaper recently published Tolbert’s work, which includes an enlightening story, photographs from post-World War II Japan, and videos. Read More …
