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Turtles and surfers by the shore in Maui, Hawaii. Photo credit: Bing Lin, Princeton University.

January 09, 2023

Social Media and Aerial Mapping of Sea Floor Reveal That Tourists Love Hawaiian Coral Reefs Just a Little Too Much

A new analysis combining web-scraped social media data and high-resolution reef mapping in Hawaii shows that live coral cover is both a driver of –…

Turtles and surfers by the shore in Maui, Hawaii. Photo credit: Bing Lin, Princeton University.

Afghan girls at school in Herat, Afghanistan, 2019. Photo by Solmaz Daryani/Shutterstock

January 09, 2023

SPIA Reacts: Implications of the Taliban's Decision to Ban Women and Girls From Attending School in Afghanistan

Late last December, the Taliban announced plans to ban women from attending universities and girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, one of the…

Afghan girls at school in Herat, Afghanistan, 2019. Photo by Solmaz Daryani/Shutterstock

During the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19, face masks were required on public transit in Seattle, Washington. Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy

January 06, 2023

Class Close-up: Looking to Pandemics Past to Plan the Future

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to rattle the globe, Professor Keith Wailoo, a historian of medicine, disease, and health care, felt as if we were …

During the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19, face masks were required on public transit in Seattle, Washington. Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy

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January 02, 2023

Happy New Year! Thanks to all who have applied to our degree programs. We are enjoying reading your applications and look forward to those that we…

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