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Managing environmental crises and concerns was a hot topic during the Conference on World Affairs, with panelists working through a multitude of problems and how to manage them.
The 19-year-old catches up with the fellow activist, who sowed the seeds of the movement two decades before Hollywood turned it into a hashtag.
There are times when Chris Borland does the unexpected. That was the case just over three years ago when he suddenly walked away from a million-dollar NFL contract and the cusp of football greatness after a much trumpeted rookie season as a hard-hitting linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers.
The decorated Olympian, who has returned to the national spotlight as a sexual assault survivor, now uses her platform to promote positive body image and advocate for other survivors.
With cheers, boos and gasps, the Conference on World Affairs dove deep into politics this year, exploring and debating the realities of the Trump-era U.S.
Two-time olympic captain of the U.S. gymnastics team and advocate against sexual abuse Aly Raisman spoke at the Conference on World Affairs in Macky Auditorium on Thursday.
2018 CWA speaker Adam Frank on NPR.
The country is currently not the closest we’ve ever come to nuclear war, says Daniel Ellsberg, but we are still likely to face annihilation. And recent false alarms in Hawaii and Japan, erroneously alerting residents to incoming missiles,
In the wake of the 2016 election, a group of despairing Democrats in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, formed a new political group to ensure that they would never be out-organized locally again.
The Cold War brought plenty of false alarms — but nothing like the situation we face today. We are closer to a nuclear disaster than at anytime since 1995. And it is going to get worse.