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The number of retail, or non-professional, investors has grown exponentially in the U.S. throughout the pandemic. Large retail trading sites such as E*TRADE, TD Ameritrade, and Charles Schwab saw their number of new users increase by 103% compared to last year. At the same time, Robinhood had 3 million new accounts opened in the first quarter of 2020, almost double the first quarter of 2019. Half of Robinhood’s 3 million new accounts reported themselves as first-time investors. Teenage an...

Published: 29 April 2021 PHILIPSBURG:--- The University of Curaçao Dr. Moises da Costa Gomez (UoC) is offering its Law Program in Sint Maarten since 2018. This Law Program is the same as offered in Curaçao, which has been positively assessed by the Netherlands Flemish Accreditation Organization (NVAO). The UoC stands for continuous improvement including listening to its students, which is part of its quality cycle. Taking into account feedback received from the students, especial...

Activists don’t just want justice for Judson Albahm’s killing. They want change. Lucy Messineo-Witt | Asst. Photo Editor After Albahm’s death, Rebirth SYR pledged to march for 40 days to honor him and continue to seek justice. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. The Syracuse community watched Judson Albahm grow up.  His father owned several shops in the city, and residents knew him through his childhood and into his teenage years, said Hasahn Bloodworth, the founder of Rebirth SYR...

7 April 2021 by: Andrea Korte The CASE workshop introduces undergraduate and graduate students in STEM to federal policymaking. | Anne Q. Hoy/AAAS The CASE workshop introduces undergraduate and graduate students in STEM to federal policymaking. | Anne Q. Hoy/AAAS In the first installment in a two-part series, learn how AAAS serves undergraduates, graduate students and new Ph.D. holders – and how you can take part in AAAS programs to enhance your education or kick-start a caree...

Published March 15, 2021, 3:01 PM Remember last year when clearer skies and lessened air pollution resulting from the strict lockdown in Metro Manila made headlines? Sustainability think-tank Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) suggests that this is no longer the case as the “alarming lack of measures to address air pollution has allowed air quality to spike back to pre-COVID (coronavirus disease) levels.” (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “COVID-19 appeared to have given natur...

Carter Center Launches Inform Women, Transform Lives Global Campaign Share March 08, 2021 ATLANTA (March 8, 2021) — The Carter Center today launched the Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, a groundbreaking global effort to help ensure that women can seek and receive information from their governments. Inform Women, Transform Lives consists of three major elements—raising awareness about women’s right to access public information; working with the campaign’s 13 inaugural cities to ...

Faculty posted Emma Sternberg ’21 Two Trinity College professors who teach and conduct research about immigration are demonstrating their dedication to inclusivity by supporting a national nonprofit organization that works to create welcoming communities. Professor of Political Science Stefanie Chambers and Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law Abigail Fisher Williamson recently were chosen to serve on the Welcoming...

New App Helps Liberians Report Good and Bad Police Behavior Share February 11, 2021 Liberia National Police Inspector General Patrick Sudue signs documents outlining new complaints and commendations procedures. (Photos: The Carter Center) International expert Bob Stewart leads participants in a session to review standard operating procedures and build the police force’s capacity to process complaints and commendations. Officers from Bong County’s Professional Standards Department, which i...

 E-Mail Ricardo Galvão, a physicist who lost his position as director of a Brazilian science agency after defending its data on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, will receive the 2021 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The annual AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award honors scientists who have demonstrated scientific freedom and/or responsibility in particularly challenging circumstances, sometimes at risk...

The U.S. and China Are Battling for Influence in Latin America, and the Pandemic Has Raised the Stakes Time 2/4/2021 Ciara Nugent/London © Carlos Jasso—Reuters China’s President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan with Panama’s then President Juan Carlos Varela and First Lady Lorena Castillo in December 2018 When Alex Almeida surveys his family farm in a rural corner of landlocked Paraguay, he sees mainly fields, punctuated by small houses with sheet-metal roofs and...