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Merging academics with real-world, tangible experiences
Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn standing outside steps of Fisher Fine Arts building on campus

From Asunción, Paraguay, rising fourth-year Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn is a marketing and communications summer intern for the nonprofit Girls Inc. in Manhattan.

(Image: Courtesy of Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn)

Merging academics with real-world, tangible experiences

Adding to her experience working for nonprofits, rising fourth-year Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn is a marketing and communications intern for Girls Inc. in Manhattan this summer.

Louisa Shepard

4 min. read

Japan’s election outcomes
A man is seen on a television screen, framed by the heads of people watching.

A TV screen shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaking a day after Japan's parliamentary elections, in which his party lost its majority. Ishiba said he will remain in his role.

The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images
 

  • Q&A

    • Japan’s election outcomes

    Political scientist Daniel Smith discusses the results of the Japanese parliamentary elections and the effects on the country’s future.

    2 minutes

    Diana Mutz wins the ASA Methodology Section’s Innovation Award

    Diana Mutz wins the ASA Methodology Section’s Innovation Award

    Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication and director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics is recognized for her contribution to sociological methodology.

    The 500-year legacy of a political thinker
    Selection of a portrait of Thomas Muntzer from 1609.

    A selection from a portrait of Thomas Muntzer from 1609.

    COURTESY CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

    The 500-year legacy of a political thinker

    Five hundred years ago this spring, about 8,000 armed peasants gathered outside the village of Frankenhausen in what is now Germany.Their stand ended in disaster, with thousands dead from an artillery barrage, and their spiritual leader, radical theologian Thomas Müntzer, was beheaded two weeks later after a torture-filled interrogation.

    3 minutes