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΢Ȧ Students Team Up with NBC10 on Video Project

΢Ȧ Impact

Communication students experience political reporting firsthand.

The ADP Takes an Inside Look at Political Speechwriting

This forum explored the unique and intimate relationship between speechwriter and speaker.

Leaders of Timor-Leste Share Country’s Story of Freedom

From left, Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo, ΢Ȧ President Frank D. Sánchez and Minister of Planning and Strategic Investment Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão.

When the War Comes Home: Trauma in Military Families

About 10 percent of soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan were deployed three times or more, exposing them for longer and longer periods to the problems that affect all service members – combat-related brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Classism – America’s Great Divide

Community and counseling psychologist Barbara Jensen delivered the Dialogue on Diversity Spring Lecture titled “Across the Great Divide: Crossing Classes and Clashing Cultures” before a standing-room-only audience. 

Segregation is Back in America’s Public Schools

On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges’s father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby’s walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.”

Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: ΢Ȧ Adjunct Jennifer Bonin

“I was born during Hurricane Agnes, one of New England’s earliest land-falling hurricanes. It seems hurricanes have been following me ever since,” says ΢Ȧ Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin ’04.

"In Search of Roger Williams," A Lecture by J. Stanley Lemons

This Rhode Island historian says long-held facts about Roger Williams are simply fiction.

Waiting for the End of the World

People have been predicting the end of time almost since the beginning of it. And without exception, they have all been wrong. So why would anyone believe that the world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012?