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Freepik   | Photo Credit: Freepik B-Schools need to develop both their curriculum and their pedagogy to groom the next generation of leaders In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the value of an MBA degree has been the subject of vigorous debate as B-schools strive to prepare students for an increasingly complex business environment. The ongoing pandemic has added to the debate by bringing into sharp focus the impact that other spheres — public health, education, governance — have ...

San Diego State University Professor TBILISI: The World Journalists Conference (WJC), organized by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) annually, was conducted from Monday, April 19 to Tuesday, April 20, 2021, online for the second time in its history – due to the continuing global pandemic – COVID-19. Monday, April 19, the very first day of the two-day event, in which around 70 journalists and other media and non-media professionals participated from about 50 countries in total, was ...

A beautiful architectural installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes, has been revealed as the winner of t

"Cruel and Unusual: U.S. Sentencing Practices in a Global Context" The title of this post is the title of this notable new report released this week coming from the University of San Francisco School of Laws Center for Law and Global Justice.  This press release provides a background and summary of this report, and here are excerpts from the press release: Sentencing laws in the United States are at odds with the country’s human rights obligations to direct its prisons system towards rehabi...

Editor’s note: This article mentions a racist cartoon published by the Voice in 2015. Though we recognize we cannot undo any of the harm the cartoon caused, especially to the Black community at Georgetown, we deeply apologize for publishing it and have since a retraction. There is no excuse for running such an offensive comic. We are continuing to take steps to address racism in our organization and ensure we do not cause such harm again.  When Amanda Yen (COL ‘23) arrived at Georgetown...

Reply WCSU to celebrate Western Research Week on May 3 through 6 Annual showcase of student research goes virtual this year in four-day event DANBURY, CONN. — Western Connecticut State University will renew and reimagine the popular tradition of celebrating student research at the close of each academic year with the online presentation of Western Research Week as a four-day virtual event from May 3 through 6. After a hiatus in 2020 forced by the universitys closure last spring at the star...

UAE Chapter of IAEE to organise webinar on Role of Hydrogen in a Global Context ABU DHABI, 18th April, 2021 (WAM) -- Khalifa University of Science and Technology today announced the UAE Chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics (UAE-IAEE) will organise a webinar on the role of hydrogen in a global context to highlight the opportunities and challenges for hydrogen as a key energy sector in in Asia, Europe and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The webinar, titled ‘Hydroge...

Photo courtesy of Forbes What are the constitutional and legal implications of the proposed Colombo Port City Economic Commission? I take the view that in terms of design and effect, this proposed Bill seeks to carve out the Port City for differentiated treatment that is inconsistent with our Constitution. The Bill envisages a new geographical and legal space that is outside of our system of constitutional governance. It envisages a territory and a group of persons that come under 5-7 unelected...

IIT Gandhinagar to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2021 from March 15 IIT Gandhinagar to celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2021 from March 15 IIT Gandhinagar will be celebrating Brain Awareness Week 2021 from March 15 with the aim to inform and educate people about the many wonders of the brain. advertisement IIT Gandhinagar will be celebrating Brain Awareness Week 2021 from tomorrow, March 15. The Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) is ...

March 1, 2021 Mukesh Ambani has yet again displayed his seriousness towards technology but experts believe it might be too soon to call his oil-to-telecom conglomerate “tech-first.” On Feb. 28, Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RIL) said it had bought an additional stake in skyTran, a US-based company that has developed a technology for running pod taxis, for $26.76 million (Rs196 crore). RIL had first picked up a 12.7% stake in skyTran in 2018 and bought some additional shares of the company...