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Seth Grimes ’19,  from Manchester, N.H., writes on exploring the motivations behind violence in combat sports during his summer research opportunity.

How do people experience government promoted ideas of peace after mass atrocity? Susan Thomson, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, explores this question and more in Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace (Yale University Press).

A new book exploring the history of Jewish Life at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ is now available, and the work is more than a 25th anniversary tribute to ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Saperstein Jewish Center. It is an academic effort based on painstaking archival research and extensive interviews conducted by six students.

Professor Teo Ballvé has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to spend the next year in Colombia researching how environmental peacebuilding can help strengthen a nation recovering from decades of conflict.

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ students gained resume-building skills as they learned to create digital stories — and, in turn, they helped create awareness for the local chapter of a nonprofit organization.

Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges became available online in 2014, more unmarried women have pursued full-time self-employment positions, according to recent findings by visiting professor of economics Meg Blume-Kohout. Her research focused on differences in the effects of the ACA on self-employment among married and single women and men in the […]

Confronting difficult and contentious subjects in the classroom is an essential component of a liberal arts education. Professors Jenna Reinbold and Tim Byrnestalk about how they are approaching a course that examines the American church-state debate through the lens of abortion and same-sex marriage.

Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum interviews ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Assistant Professor of Political Science Sam Rosenfeld in this new piece about the current state of political polarization in American politics. Rosenfeld’s newest book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, has generated national interest for how it examines the current political landscape through analysis of political party […]

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]

Can knitting be used as an act of defiance? Jennifer LeMesurier, professor of writing and rhetoric at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, describes how hands in motion can help make a commotion.