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Participants at PWYPs ten year anniversary conference endorsed and elected the Global Steering Committee on 19 September 2012. In April 2015, to reflect the transition of PWYP becoming an entity independent to its host Open Society Foundation, the Global Steering Committee became the Global Council. The Global Council brings together a maximum of 10 representatives…

Maria Aurora Couto, the Goan littérateur and cultural activist who passed away on 14 January 2022, brought out the facets of her cosmopolitan outlook and her abiding faith in the synthetic traditions of Goan/Indian culture. She remained steeped in the cultural demands of high nationalism embodying the values of her times.

A century after she published a groundbreaking mathematical theory, Emmy Noether gets her due.

Syracuse University’s College of Law and Martin J. Whitman School of Management (Whitman) are launching a new Certificate of Advanced Study in Technology Law and Entrepreneurship (CASTLE). This program leverages areas of strength at each of the schools that equip...

UD alumnus Rodolfo Nayga Jr. shapes food policy through decorated career of agricultural economics and health research

His appointment is effective immediately and he will serve on Alphabet's Audit and Compliance Committee.

A digital twin of society that policymakers can use to solve complex social problems: that sounds futuristic. Yet this is exactly what researchers from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in particular the Institute fo

J. Robert Oppenheimer, in full Julius Robert Oppenheimer, (born April 22, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey), American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (1943–45) during development of the atomic bomb and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947–66). Accusations of disloyalty led to a government hearing that resulted in the loss of his security clearance and of ...

The two-day conference—featuring University of Miami leaders, experts, and students on engaging panels—explored topics from COVID-19 to China’s influence on Latin America.

On June 18, La Follette School Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman passed away at age 85. Colleagues at the La Follette School mourned the loss of Havem...