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On Feb.14, 2021, urban planner Danicia Monet posted a link to an open letter on her Facebook page, with its primary demand that Newfields CEO and president Charles Venable step down from the position he had occupied at the museum since 2012. That he ultimately did step down was certainly a dramatic development, but it may also be part of a broader shift occurring in arts institutions across the country and around the world. Monet’s letter quickly gained 2219 signatures.  Those who signe...

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...

More than 25 years ago, the Women’s Studies Program established its roots at East Tennessee State University. Since then, the program has sought to provide feminist education on the campus and throughout the region through scholarship, activism and community building. To commemorate this noteworthy milestone, the Women’s Studies Program will hold a celebration at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 26, via Zoom. The public is invited to attend this commemorative occasion as Women’s Studie...

Hector Avalos life included many experiences with death and dying because of his personal battles with disease.  But Avalos defined his life by what he could achieve in the time he had. The longtime professor at Iowa State University left a big imprint. Lucía Suárez, director of the Latino/a Studies Program at ISU, told the Tribune that Avalos was "the kind of professor that we all wish we were, and that we hope that we are.” She described him as generous, positive and thoughtful. Avalos ...

Submitted Iza Hehre, center, was presented her latest humanitarian honor from Prodigy Bureau Global by Her Highness Jawaher Bint Khalifa Al Khalif of Dubai and inspirational podcaster Bertrand Steven St Louis. . File Iza Hehre and her daughter Lily pose with Mickey and Minnie Mouse during the Festival of Wonders held locally in July 2019 to raise awareness for OVI Childrens Hospital in Kenya. A woman who grew up in Pulaski County is making her name known throughout the world with her s...

Blending economics, development, and human rights: A profile of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Motivated by a desire to improve the lives of those in his native country, Cuba, the economist became come one of the youngest full professors at Yale, an expert on Latin American economics, and an advocate for U.S.-Cuba relations. The legacy of Carlos Diaz-Alejandro – at Yale and in Latin American scholarship  By Lisa Qian March 29, 2021 One of Yale’s most influential and prominent economics professors n...

UNO Jazz at the Sandbar has returned for Spring 2021. OffBeat’s Best of the Beat winner for Best Emerging Artist, Mahmoud Chouki, is slated to play. The late Ellis Marsalis, the first Chairman of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of New Orleans, established “Jazz at the Sandbar” in 1990. The series is designed to provide UNO Jazz Studies students an opportunity to get real-life experience performing with respected professional musicians in front of a live audience. The series is ...

It was April 1964, and a new military government had seized power in a coup d’état and removed Furtado from his government post, labeling him a communist. The invitation the journalist delivered was from Yale’s economics department, proposing that Furtado come spend the first year of his exile in New Haven as a visiting professor and scholar at the Economic Growth Center (EGC). Faced with the prospect of arrest for any public activity in Brazil over the next ten years and knowing that many...

Ireland and the struggle against modernity A conversation with Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Fearghal McGarry Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Fearghal McGarry in the librarys Irish Room. (Lee Pellegrini) Jimmy Gralton (1886-1945) might seem a quirky, and dubious, footnote in Irish history. A Leitrim native who twice emigrated to and returned from the United States, Gralton was an ardent Communist and combatant in the struggle for independence against Britain, a...

Northern Star DeKALB – In 1972, students and faculty began a planning committee for a Women’s Studies Program at the university. In 1981, the plan was approved and the first Women’s Study course was offered during the fall semester. As of 2020, NIU began to offer a Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Major.  “I think the Center for the Study of Women Gender and Sexuality includes the study of women from a very diverse perspective and also includes the study of LGBT people, so that�...