Category Archive: Faculty in the News

Faculty Spotlight: EPSM Professor Ana Baptista Featured in the Huffington Post

EPSM Professor Ana Baptista was recently featured for bringing “a passion to her work, and the knowledge of how living in a specific locale can impact health.” Professor Baptista has long been an advocate for alternative energy production as a solution to the problems of pollution associated with the production and use of fossil fuels.

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Professor Darrick Hamilton interviewed on NPR Marketplace

In an interview on December 14, Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy Darrick Hamilton discussed the growing wealth gap that is widening along racial lines in the United States. Research indicates that a major driver of the divide is the disparity in asset wealth.  In the Spring 2015 semester, Professor Hamilton will co-teach a new …

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From Divisive Walls To Blurred Boundaries: How Much Has Really Changed Between US and Russia?

International Affairs Professor, Nina Khrushcheva, claims in an article entitled Building Berlin’s Wall helped avoid a nuclear confrontation that “[t]hough the physical Berlin Wall was torn down 25 years ago, the psychological wall remains intact. Stronger than ever.”

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Sean Jacobs on Morocco’s refusal to host the Cup of Nations

International Affairs Professor, Sean Jacobs, recently published an article in The Guardian which commented on the reasons behind Morocco’s refusal to host the Cup of Nations.

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Professor L.H.M. Ling Draws Connections Between Ebola and Ferguson on Huffington Post

In an article posted to the Huffington Post website last Tuesday, GPIA professor L.H.M. Ling confronts multiple current events in answering the question, “What does Ebola have to do with Ferguson and ISIS?” Professor Ling is the faculty supervisor of The Global Intimate (also known as the Silk Road Research Initiative), a student research collective …

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