Everyone I have met at Kunshan, staff and students alike, has been extremely helpful, sympathetic, and generous. I couldn’t have navigated the past week without that generosity, and that is humbling.
Breast Cancer
The higher incidence of breast cancer since 1940 is consistent with the greater use and proliferation of various endocrine-like chemicals in the environment.
Dieynabou Barry
Rediscovering Development: Addressing the Needs of the Rural Poor in India, students
Rediscovering Development: Addressing the Needs of the Rural Poor in India, students
Functional Anarchy
I not only survived the functional anarchy in India, but embraced it. The beauty of India is that things always find a way of working out even when it seems impossible.
Dieynabou Barry
Rediscovering Development: Addressing the Needs of the Rural Poor in India, students
Rediscovering Development: Addressing the Needs of the Rural Poor in India, students
Humans of Udaipur
During my time here in Rajasthan, I have met many interesting and different people with unique backgrounds. In this post,Continue reading
Airport Interlude on the Road to DKU (昆山杜克大学)
I am the first Durham MEM student set to participate in what will hopefully grow into a strong reciprocal exchange with Duke’s sister school in Kunshan, China.
A Double-edged Sword & a Look to the Future
I came to realize that “it’s complicated” adequately describes almost everything I’ve encountered in relation to Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.
Climate Damages Lawsuits: A trip down memory lane
A lot of the costs of climate change will be borne by society at large, through taxes and insurance premiums.
Ben Siegelman
Monitoring for Community Engagement in Filipino Mangrove Restoration, students, travel
Monitoring for Community Engagement in Filipino Mangrove Restoration, students, travel
Native Trees and Weeping Fish: the Bisaya Environmentalism of Rose Abejero
For Rose Abejero, a poet and environmentalist, livelihoods are not only the cause of destruction but the reason for protection. She’s just one example of the many perspectives that have reshaped my own this summer.
No Country for Clean Cars
In light of this assault on an environmental policy that did its job, what can a despairing environmentalist do?
Plastic Safari
Although untouched remains a myth and pristine has ceased to exist, the remote stunning nature of the African wilderness is what draws people near and far. The ubiquity of plastic is not something new.