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Thomas’s research is unique: she analyzes colonial newspaper for-sale advertisements for female slaves. So far, she has found over 1,000 advertisements for women in colonial Massachusetts alone.
Understanding how these mafias are structured is a difficult task because communicating with the mafia groups is illegal and dangerous; only high-ranking members truly know their hierarchical operation.
Epler Wood said she has worked in ecotourism for over 25 years, researching the industry’s future and global impact. At a lecture Monday, she examined whether tourism has improved living conditions in the areas it affects.
“Air pollution and traffic congestion really have become the most pressing challenges in major urban areas in China,” Li said in lecture last week, adding that these two issues have large impacts on both human health and economic growth.
Denniston said ethics have a quantitative effect on companies, emphasizing that a company’s value is highly correlated with its ethical reputation.
Moderated by Prof. Aziz Rana, law, the forum allowed five professors from Cornell’s government, law and history departments to discuss whether some actions constitute war crimes and outline what — if anything — the international community can do to punish those responsible.
Prof. Daniel Schlozman, political science, Johns Hopkins University, said he believes there will be no political realignments in the election this year, although both parties experienced significant challenges at their conventions.
Levitt, who received Cornell’s 2016 Engaged Scholar Prize, discussed his work with PPTG at a lecture in the Physical Sciences Building Friday.
Ross spoke about the causes of international conflicts at the Cornell Institute for African Development’s annual symposium on Friday, which focused on extremism and security in the state of Africa.
Data indicates that Clinton supporters are more likely to feel as if women and minorities have too little influence in the United States, while Trump supporters hold more negative, anti-black views than Clinton’s.