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Please register for this Zoom event here. Food for Thought: A new Center for Advanced Study public events series featuring presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows. This informal series includes talks that were canceled after campus shut down in Spring…

There is a fascinating but little known history of Native North American writing on the classical cultures of Europe: in poetry, novels, short stories, essays, letters, and other genres from the seventeenth century to today, Native writers have been using the history, mythology, literature, and…

Respondents: William S Hammack (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering) Robert Markley (English) In January 2005, at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, Nicholas Negroponte announced the radical idea of a low-cost laptop for the developing world. From Negroponte's initial…

The Effects of Branded Foreign Aid: Evidence from Bangladesh Many foreign aid agencies, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), strive to make their efforts well known in the countries where they work, aiming to positively influence citizen attitudes toward the donor country…

Professor Wright’s novel tells the story of an unlikely love triangle — between a Holocaust survivor, a student from colonial West Africa, and a black GI — set in the tumult of post-WWII Paris. This presentation will focus on the African student, Sebastien Danxomè. Sebastien is driven to outdo the…

Climate change, or global warming as it is often called, is one of the most important issues facing humanity. All available evidence indicates that human activities are responsible for most of the changes in climate that have been documented over the last four decades. If we continue our current…

The economic and sociology literature has shown strong persistence in wealth, income, and education across generations and over one’s lifetime, leading to social immobility. In this study, the roles of genes, environments, and their interactions will be explored in order to explain social mobility…