Sending kids back to school is the scariest test: Coronavirus Q&A (interview with Emily Oster)
August 6, 2020 Bloomberg
Strong Leaders
Research Matters
Update on COVID-19 Training for Health Care Workers
Interdisciplinary Focus
Let’s Rethink This: Deconstructing the Concept of Development
A Message from Director Ed Steinfeld
Standing in Solidarity
Interdisciplinary Focus
Undaunted by the Pandemic, the New MPA Cohort Is Off and Running
In The News
Can N.Y.C. Reopen Schools? The Whole Country Is Watching (commentary by Emily Oster)
August 5, 2020 New York Times
Desperation, misery in Indian Kashmir a year after clampdown (commentary by Ashutosh Varshney)
August 4, 2020 New Straits Times
News from Watson
Watson’s Latest Cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows Departs for Dynamic Academic Opportunities
July 6, 2020
Virtually United
May 19, 2020
Off Campus, On Line - Susan Moffitt
May 14, 2020
Research Briefs
Covid-19 and feminism in the Global South: Challenges, initiatives and dilemmas
July 23, 2020
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Events
August 4
Covid Today: Is America Really Ready to Re-Open?
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
July 27
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Tune in to the conversation starting Monday, July 27 at 2 p.m.
May 31 – September 8
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Student Experience
Students Produce Policy Videos on the Geopolitics of Oil and Energy
July 15, 2020
Webcasts
Challenges to Global Anti-Black Racism: A Conversation
July 16, 2020
Federal COVID Response and Recovery Efforts: A Conversation with US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
June 24, 2020
Angrynomics ─ Virtual Book Talk
June 18, 2020
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