School Closures Have Failed America’s Children (commentary by Emily Oster)
February 25, 2021 New York Times
Research Matters
Awards & Honors
Congratulations to the 2020-21 Fulbright Scholarship Winners
Interdisciplinary Focus
How to Teach Climate Change: Sourcing and Sharing Syllabi
Interdisciplinary Focus
Supporting New Scholarship on Questions of Injustice, Human Rights, and Democracy
In The News
‘You’re never too old to learn’: Restore Education aims to give people the tools to succeed (commentary by John Friedman)
February 25, 2021 KSAT12
Exclusive: US counterterrorism operations touched 85 countries in the last 3 years alone (Stephanie Savell cited)
February 25, 2021 USA Today
News from Watson
Spring Semester Practitioner-Led Student Study Groups
January 26, 2021
Policy, Economic Experts Weigh in on U.S. Capitol Attack
January 7, 2021
Call It an Emergency: The Next President’s Guide to Addressing Climate Change
November 4, 2020
Research Briefs
Recommendations on Brazil to President Biden and the New Administration
February 22, 2021
Opportunities
The Watson Institute offers a variety of research and funding opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students.
Events
February 25
We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump - A Front Row Seat to a Political Revolution
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
February 26
Nirvikar Jassal — Policing and Gendered Cases in India
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
March 3
Sanyu A. Mojola ─ A Nowadays Disease: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in Rural South Africa
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Student Experience
Alumni Spotlight: Liz Garbus ’92
February 18, 2021
Webcasts
We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump - A Front Row Seat to a Political Revolution
February 25, 2021
Caribbean Political Futures
February 24, 2021
Kennedy Talks ─ Threats to the First Amendment: Social Media, Political Vitriol, and a President Impeached
February 23, 2021
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