David Anodiwanashe is a researcher and scholar of political science and international development studies.
It has gradually become apparent that Zimbabwe’s governing party, Zanu PF, is perpetually endangering democratic processes by not only weakening, but also dismantling the opposition movement ahead of Zimbabwe’s 2023 general elections.
Freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono disembarks from a prisons truck as he arrives in handcuffs and leg irons at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on 6 November 2020. Chin’ono was arrested three days earlier over allegations of contempt of court, according to the police. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Aaron Ufumeli)
Its constant and alarming actions recalling members of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC Alliance) from parliament; the passing of the Constitutional Amendment Bill (Number 2); and the abductions, wanton arrests and torture of journalists such as Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition politicians such as Joana Mamombe
Samantha Giffen, PhD ’21, loves the thrill of discovery, in the lab and beyond
May 6, 2021 – One day in 2014, Samantha Giffen sat in a small dark room at the New York State Department of Public Health’s Wadsworth Center, peering at the screen of a hulking electron microscope. She and a colleague had set up an experiment to test whether an antibody known as ZAC-3 would have any effect on
Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, a deadly diarrhoeal disease that afflicts millions of people in poor countries. As the image came into focus, Giffen could see that the bacteria’s outer membranes were crumpled and their tail-like flagella were coiled, signs that the antibody had vanquished the pathogen.
Former Smithsonian official John Davis to head Historic Deerfield
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
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Davis will succeed Philip Zea, who is retiring from Historic Deerfield after 18 years.
“On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I am delighted to welcome John as the next president and CEO of Historic Deerfield,” Joe Gromacki, chair of Historic Deerfield’s Board of Trustees, said. “John is someone who demonstrates the ability, aptitude, and desire to take Historic Deerfield to a new level of impact and success as we move into the next chapter of Historic Deerfield’s institutional life. He has demonstrated a deep passion for Deerfield as a place, as well as a strong recognition of its importance in the American cultural landscape.”
UMass team identifies cancer research breakthrough
Updated May 06, 2021;
Posted May 06, 2021
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences has been a home for research into the treatment of cancer and other diseases, where scientists say they are making a breakthrough. (JIM KINNEY/ THE REPUBLICAN)
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A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has announced the engineering of a tiny particle it says has the potential to revolutionize disease treatment, including for cancer.
The new research combines two different approaches to more precisely and effectively deliver treatment to the specific cells affected by cancer. The work has been ongoing at the UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences, where researchers say a nanoparticle has far-reaching potential.
‘I’ve never seen a class so engaged’: How famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a UMass professor and a journalist created a class unlike any other
Updated May 06, 2021;
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg was roughly five minutes into responding to a student’s question on wargaming nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union when the time for his answer ran out.
That was a fairly common occurrence. The famed whistleblower had at age 40 leaked the Pentagon Papers, top-secret documents on the Vietnam War. Now, he had been given a time limit on his comments by Christian Appy, a renowned professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It wasn’t that Ellsberg would ramble off-topic. It was that for every question, he simply had so much to say.