Daniel Orenstein, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, discusses what he calls a “failure” in the Israeli environmental movement in this op-ed published in Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/841397.html

Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brown University professor-at-large, drew a sharp line between the likes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and those who rose to power during the Cold War, like Fidel Castro, during a lecture at the University of Arkansas' Clinton School of Public Service.
www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/03/24/news/032407arbrazilianleader.txt

U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel are among the participants in this year’s Nebraska Capitol Forum on America’s Future, a project of the Choices Program developed by the Watson Institute for International Studies. The Forum is an experiential civic education initiative that gives high school students a voice in public consideration of current international issues.
www.swnebr.net/newspaper/cgi-bin/articles/articlearchiver.pl?159959

Associate Professor of Africana Studies James Campbell is participating in a panel discussion, titled “The Transatlantic Slave Trade: the Tragedy, the Legacy,” at the United Nations today as the General Assembly commemorates the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/note6071.doc.htm

Professor of English Paula Vogel discusses the theater and her life as a female playwright.
www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20070326-9999-lz1c26voicem.html

This opinion piece cites remarks by Comptroller General David Walker at his recent John Hazen White Lecture at Brown.
www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_5513985

Robert Coover, the T.B. Stowell Adjunct Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, is quoted in this opinion piece exploring the question: Does good, old-fashioned storytelling really change just because it is distributed in new forms of media?
www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20070325_Does_storytelling_change_in_context_of_
new_forms_of_media_.html

An update on the research at EpiVax Inc, a company founded in 1998 by Dr. Anne S. De Groot, an associate professor of community health and medicine at Brown University and director of Brown Medical School’s TB/HIV Research Laboratory. The company is working to develop vaccines for HIV, smallpox, tularemia, and other infectious diseases and potential bioterrorist weapons.
www.pbn.com/stories/24547.htm

An opinion piece on the the digitization of rare books and archival material, by University librarian Harriette Hemmasi.
www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_lib25_03-25-07_Q94UUJ7.1960394.html