Community conversation: Consequences of Afghanistan withdrawal
In one of the first community events of the academic year, 60 students and faculty gathered in the Betty Ford Classroom for a conversation about the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan....
Professor’s Book Inspires a Forthcoming Museum
Exhibits to focus on the history and importance of human rights...
Marie Berry Wins NSF CAREER Award for Justice and Human Rights Work
As Marie Berry sees it, the global community sits at a precarious intersection of three dangerous threats: catastrophic climate change, challenges to democracy and rampant inequality....
DU Professor Deborah Avant Leads New Approaches to International Security
Deborah Avant’s passion for international security studies snuck up on her. Instead of diving into development as a graduate student, Avant kept coming back to one formative memory: the Vietnam War....
UC San Diego Professor Renee Bowen Selected as White House Economic Advisor
Bowen will serve the Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisers for one year...
From book awards to the ‘Japan Zoominar’
GPS professor Ulrike Schaede shares her book’s recent international accolades, the resounding success of JFIT’s ‘Zoominar’ series and her latest Japan research...
A Brave New Virtual World of Work?
People are working remotely on a large scale during the pandemic. UC San Diego expert on teleworking discusses impacts of this unprecedented experiment....
Steinberg on US-China cooperation amid COVID-19
James Steinberg urges the United States and China to work together......
What is the Best Way to Encourage Innovation? Competitive Pay May be the Answer
Field work from UC San Diego and Thermo Fisher finds providing a sizable award to top performers is most effective in producing creative scientific and technological solutions...
Parthasarathy’s NSF grant will investigate how politics and public trust drive coronavirus response
Professor Parthasarathy: diagnostic testing is key for the U.S. to stop the spread of COVID-19, re-open the economy, and manage the next epidemic; things to learn from other countries’ responses....
Alan V. Deardorff analyzes rules of origin impact on the efficacy of free trade agreements
Alan V. Deardorff's latest research on international trade evaluates the timely topic of rules of origins (ROOs) impact on free trade agreements (FTAs)....
Decoding the Hong Kong protests – and more
Political economist Ruixue Jia sheds light on economic development in China and the potential impacts of current protests in Hong Kong...