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Right to Identity: Child Abandonment, Trafficking, Migration and Protection
Dr. Jean Geran, Co-Director for Human Rights, Child Protection and Global Policy of the Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS) Initiative, will discuss a child’s right to identity during a free public lecture. For more information, please visit: http://international.wisc.edu/blog/index.php/2014/11/04/2014-soffa-lecture/ and http://sohe.wisc.edu/4w/
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Writing AIDS: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature
This talk will discuss the ways in which AIDS has pervaded the personal and social imaginings of the body by highlighting textual representations found in Spanish American literature where AIDS has a significant role. I will reference my recent scholarship on these literary realms and then will talk briefly about my current research into visual…
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Social media for social good: Researchers estimate air pollution from online posts
UW-Madison computer science researchers develop a method to use social media posts to estimate air pollution levels.
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Searching a Nigerian forest for answers to emerging health challenges
Sagan Friant, a doctoral student in Environment and Resources, discovers eating infected crabs causes lung fluke in in monkeys and people.
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Conservation Status of North American Birds in the Face of Future Climate Change
National Audubon Society scientists recently completed a comprehensive analysis modeling the winter and summer ranges of 588 North American bird species in response to future climate change. Using extensive citizen science data and detailed climate layers, these models characterize the relationship between the distribution of each species and climate through the end of the century.…