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December 22, 2015
Bernstein Gallery Offers High School Students an Intimate Look at the Cuban Revolution
“The Cuban Revolution” – an exhibit currently on display at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Bernstein Gallery – features 80 rare, black and white photographs documenting a critical period in Cuba’s cultural and political history. Taken between 1947 and the late 1960s, the photos are part of a private collection that belong to David…
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December 09, 2015
“Impassioned Debate” Results in Noteworthy Journal
While producing the annual Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) is no small task, a review of this year’s 26th edition clearly reveals a publication worthy of the time and effort involved.Preparing the journal necessitated bringing together, over the course of a long winter “reading weekend” on the Princeton…
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December 08, 2015
Nancy Duff Campbell: A Path to Public Service
Nancy Duff Campbell is the founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center. This fall, she visited the Woodrow Wilson School in October as the Judith H. Rawson and Robert Rawson Distinguished Visitor. A recognized expert on women's law and public policy issues for more than 40 years, Campbell has participated in the…
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December 08, 2015
Currie Wins Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
Janet M. Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been selected to receive the 2015 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award by the American Economic Association’s Committee on…
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December 07, 2015
WWS Reacts: Is Gun Violence an American 'Epidemic'?
Two shooters opened fire at a party in San Bernadino, Calif., last week, killing 14 people and injuring 21, the latest in a series of mass shootings this year ranging from Charleston, South Carolina, to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Roseburg, Oregon. Records show that, on average, there is now a mass shooting every day in the…
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December 07, 2015
WooCast: Sailing the Water's Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy
When engaging with other countries, the U.S. government has a number of different policy instruments at its disposal, including foreign aid, international trade and the use of military force. But what determines which policies are chosen?A new book released by a Princeton-Harvard team focuses on how domestic U.S. politics – in…
The Blood Telegram Book
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November 17, 2015
Bass Wins Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Nonfiction Book
Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, won the Ramnath Goenka Award for best nonfiction book for “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.”The award, given by The Indian Express, is presented to a book…
The Blood Telegram Book
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November 12, 2015
Princeton-Fung Global Forum Identifies Approaches for Dealing with 'Modern Plagues'
On the verdant campus of University College Dublin, nearly 300 public health experts and practitioners, government officials, scholars and students gathered to discuss the lessons learned from the Ebola crisis as part of the third annual Princeton-Fung Global Forum.The two-day conversation investigated global health crises,…
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November 11, 2015
An Anthropological View of the Ebola Outbreak
More than 150 people gathered in Robertson Hall in early October for a panel discussion and reception by four social scientists who examined challenges faced during the Ebola crisis response.Organized by Princeton University’s Global Health Program (GHP) and the Woodrow Wilson School, and co-sponsored by the Center for Health …
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November 02, 2015
Fung Forum on 'Modern Plagues' Kicks Off in Dublin
On day two of the 2015 Princeton-Fung Global Forum, Tuesday, Nov. 3, in Dublin, Ireland, public health experts, journalists and academics continued conversations about lessons learned from the recent Ebola crisis. Panels and keynote addresses covering the connections between the Ebola crisis and topics including politics,…