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Colorado bishops issue letter on the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life Congressional policies July 26, 2021 We, the Catholic bishops of Colorado, urge Congressional Representatives to support the Hyde Amendment and the Walden Amendment. We also ask the Faithful to sign The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) petition to lawmakers encouraging them to preserve the Hyde Amendment, which can be accessed at: NoTaxpayerAbortion.com, and to contact their Congressmen and women to support the Hyde and Walden amendments. The House Appropriations Labor and Health and Human...

Questions of the Humanities and its 'Value' The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future. Photo: matthew Feeney/Unsplash Education7 hours ago The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities – and questions will be asked of the “utility” of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisation – social usefulness – of research. In this context, disciplinary distinctions will be...

Nigeria Prize for Literature winner, Jude Idada, and author of ‘In the Name of Our Father’ Olukorede S. Yishau, are two of the four Nigerians nominated by the United States Mission in Nigeria for the University of Iowa’s programme tagged ‘Telling Our Stories: Creative Writing and Healthcare’. The other Nigerians are Ololade Ajayi, a poet, […]

Fri, 05/07/2021 LAWRENCE — David Slusky is an instinctive sleuth willing to share the tricks of his trade to help students explore the economic questions swirling around them. Slusky, the De-Min and Chin-Sha Wu Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas, will deliver the annual Shutz Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. Individuals can register to attend the Zoom webinar here. His presentation is titled “Adventures with a Natural Experiment Hunter: Teaching Economics Research.” The lecture will be recorded for those unable to attend...

A green sanctuary UD volunteers help transform dying urban forest into Peace Park Efforts to revitalize a 10-acre tract of dying and ecologically compromised woods in southwest Baltimore have been described in a variety of terms in recent news articles, from the spiritual (“Our Earth is a gift from God,” says the pastor whose church owns the land) to the scientific (“What we’re trying to build is a climate-adapted, resilient forest,” according to a U.S. Forest Service researcher). For church and community members, the project that is transforming a damaged landscape ...