Category: Current Affairs

Post by Brian Shea Journals PR & Advertising Coordinator A grand jury will soon announce whether Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Protesters and police are trying to work together to avoid a repeat of the clashes between the two sides…

Guest post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Diseases are much more than the viruses which cause them. Even in the presence of well-defined physical illness, social and cultural beliefs and behaviors have a strong impact on how we can understand the disease and mitigate its impact. The Ebola virus provides us with an excellent example. A…

Guest post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Diseases are much more than the viruses which cause them. Even in the presence of well-defined physical illness, social and cultural beliefs and behaviors have a strong impact on how we can understand the disease and mitigate its impact. The Ebola virus provides us with an excellent example. A…

Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…

Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…

Guest post by Catie Snow Bailard After four weeks of protest and occupation, which at times have drawn tens of thousands of participants, face-to-face talks between government officials and protest leaders appear to be yielding results. Chinese officials have promised both to issue a public report documenting the protesters' sentiments and to provide a platform for discussing electoral issues…

Guest post by Catie Snow Bailard After four weeks of protest and occupation, which at times have drawn tens of thousands of participants, face-to-face talks between government officials and protest leaders appear to be yielding results. Chinese officials have promised both to issue a public report documenting the protesters' sentiments and to provide a platform for discussing electoral issues…

Guest post by Michael A. Olivas If any of you are at all known to your campus or law school immigration/international student advisors, you may find yourself in regular contact with them and your general counsel. I am regularly in touch with these folks, in part because I teach higher education law, in part because I…

Guest post by Yair Hirschfeld I am often asked, “Why can’t the Jews and Arabs get their act together and make peace?” There are many answers to this question. The basic fact is that these two peoples, who have both gone through traumatic existential threat experiences, have for the last thirty years made a great effort…

Guest post by Yair Hirschfeld I am often asked, “Why can’t the Jews and Arabs get their act together and make peace?” There are many answers to this question. The basic fact is that these two peoples, who have both gone through traumatic existential threat experiences, have for the last thirty years made a great effort…