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How Howard University’s Republicans Plan to Coexist With Trump’s White Right
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the history of the disconnect between black voters and the GOP.
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Boycotting the U.S.
More than 3,000 academics from around the world have signed on to a call to boycott international academic conferences held in the United States in solidarity with those affected by Trump’s executive order barring entry by nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries. The ban on entry into the U.S. has left some students and scholars with valid visas stranded outside the country while others are stuck inside it, unable to leave the U.S. for personal or professional reasons for fear they won't be let back in.
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Video: Inside the NFL’s Domestic Violence Punishment Problem
Richard Gelles of the School of Social Policy & Practice talks about the way the NFL operates and about his work advising representatives on league personnel policies.
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Rift in Women’s Studies Over Transgender Issues
WMST-L is like many online discussion groups for scholars. It features many posts in which scholars try to help one another. What would be a good book to add to a syllabus on a given course? What do people know about the content of a forthcoming conference? Who might be interested in joining a panel at a scholarly meeting?
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As ACA Deadline Nears, Philly Insurance Consumers Have an Advantage
Daniel Polsky of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on his research and data collection that monitors the Affordable Care Act.
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Forceful Response
Many higher education leaders issued statements over the weekend in response to the Trump administration's executive order to ban immigrants and nonimmigrant visitors from seven countries, which are majority Muslim, from entering the United States. They criticized the ban for the disruption it caused to students and scholars and for confusion around the order and its implementation and, in many cases, expressed moral outrage.
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Protests, Confusion for Executive Order on Refugees
Ian Lustik of the School of Arts and Sciences discusses the situation for U.S. refugees under a new executive order.
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‘A Stunning Violation of Our Deepest American Values’: Universities Respond to Trump’s Immigration Order
In letters both sweeping and personal, university presidents across the country expressed alarm about President Trump’s recent executive order on immigration. MIT’s president called it “a stunning violation of our deepest American values.” Princeton’s president wrote that his own parents would have died had they been denied visas to the United States.
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Mindfulness Motivates People to Make Healthier Choices
Yoona Kang of the Annenberg School for Communication is quoted on mindfulness and its effects on health choices.
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Four Questions for: Randy Olson
The work of Randy Olson of the Perelman School of Medicine on developing state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to solve biomedical problems is featured.