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Notre Dame: Responding to Disaster Notre Dame alumnus at ground zero after deadly Ecuador earthquake
Dr. David Gaus ’84 describes the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Ecuador the evening of April 16 with a stark sense of the human impact involved
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Cap Times: UW-Madison scientist’s study uses ice records to link Industrial Revolution, climate change
In Madison, there are more than 160 years of records on the freezing and thawing dates of lakes Monona and Mendota. But it was centuries of data on a lake in Japan and a river in Finland that helped a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus and a team of researchers show climate change trends since…
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No Regrets Epidemic Response: Making People Matter
Lina Moses is an epidemiologist who worked tirelessly in Kenema, Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola epidemic, and was featured in WIRED Magazine for her work. She serves on the Technical & Scienti c Advisory board for Ebola Survivor Corps, and shares ESC’s passion for community-level solutions to complex health issues. Moses will recount…
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LECTURE: Will Africa Feed China?
Will Africa Feed China? Deborah Bräutigam Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy, Director of the International Development Program, and Director of the China-Africa Research Initiative Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Few development topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the…
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Go Big Read selects ‘Evicted’ for 2016-17
Go Big Read selects ‘Evicted’ for 2016-17