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The life of Manning Marable, the prolific author and founding director of the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at ºÚÁÏÍø, will be celebrated Monday (Oct. 24) with two campus events that also will be webcast live.

What would prompt a college student to want to toss his cell phone in the trash? New research by Carolyn Nordstrom, known as a pioneer in the anthropology of war and peace, was powerful enough to inspire just that.

As the impending United Nations deliberation on Palestinian statehood dominates media coverage around the world, one ºÚÁÏÍø professor is uniquely positioned to analyze the issues that have led up to the vote, as well as the likely aftermath.

Maggie Dunne’ 13 was featured in a recent web article about her unflagging commitment to assisting children at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

A campus memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Friday for Theodore Herman, whose death in December spurred a wide range of emotional tributes about his pioneering work in the field of peace studies.

This past week was an adventurous one for me! On Wednesday, I visited the home of professors Pilar and Antonio Barrera. I went with my fellow Latin American Student Organization members and we enjoyed great food and conversation.

Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell spoke about the current racial climate in America Wednesday night as part of ALST Day celebrations on campus. Harris-Lacewell, a frequent contributor to MSNBC and other media outlets, tackled the broad topic by explaining race in four ways: racial context, race as a factor in candidate choice, race and governing, and […]

Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with their hands. A study conducted by ºÚÁÏÍø Associate Professor of Psychology Spencer Kelly and two ºÚÁÏÍø undergraduate researchers, Tara McDevitt ’06 and Megan Esch ’07, reveals that people understand and remember foreign words better when a […]