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SCIENCE IS SO ELEGANTLY straightforward. Greenhouse gas emissions go up, the earth warms, glaciers melt, and some places get wetter while other places get drier.Mark Carey, environmental historian at Washington & Lee University, certainly didn't question climate feedbacks, and showed iconic photographic evidence of slowly retreating glaciers in the Peruvian Andes. What Carey did question during his lecture November 17...

     WILLIAM McCANTS, program manager for Department of Defense's Minerva Initiative, delivered a talk entitled "U.S. Power in Jihadi Strategic Thought" on Nov. 4 at  NYU Wagner, explaining how the Internet provides a window on the beliefs and suppositions of major jihadi thinkers.       McCants said that terrorists think deeply about the uses for violence in the pursuit of their objectives. ...

      FRED WEHREY, an expert on the domestic influence of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Senior Policy Analyst at RAND, spoke at Wagner on October 30, 2009.  His lecture, "The Rise of the Pasdaran: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iranian Politics and Implications for the U.S.," emphasized the domestic role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and...

     ON OCT. 21, 2009, in the first installment of the "Middle East Speaker Series," Juan Zarate, who formerly served as deputy assistant to the U.S. president and as deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, spoke to students and others in the Wagner community. His lecture, entitled "Beyond al Qaida: National Security in an Age of Globalization, Terror, and...

Traditional images of war generally depict men as fighters and women as passive victims. While women are certainly victimized in conflicts, the narrow view neglects the roles women play as agents in armed conflict. In some cases, women often occupy a space between fighter and victim.On Thursday, October 29, in the final installment of the Conflict, Security, and Development Series...

ABOUT A DECADE AGO, Rogan Kersh hosted a panel discussion of obesity, and only four people showed up in the audience.But on October 13, 2009, about 140 people attended as Kersh, now a professor and an associate dean at NYU Wagner, moderated a lively exchange on what has now become an undeniable epidemic in this country. Among the panelists was...

IN A PUBLIC  conversation at NYU Wagner before more than 125 students, Newark, N.J., Mayor Corey Booker offered hard-won insight, progress reports and humor in describing how his administration's strategies to reduce recidivism are contributing to broad civic improvement.Mayor Booker fielded questions October 8, 2009, about his pattern-breaking efforts from Ellen Schall, Dean of Wagner, and the audience on a...

MANY OF US have become increasingly perplexed by the current US health care reform debate.  And that is understandable.  Exaggerated by partisan politics and media hype, issues that are complex and personal to begin with have become distorted and disguised, making the policy proposals being discussed in Congress all the more challenging to understand.  Against the backdrop of an increasingly...

      HUNDREDS OF guests and speakers from all over the Northeast gathered together at Washington Square Park on April 3, 2009, with NYU Wagner's student group The International Public Service Association (IPSA).  The event was IPSA's spring conference, "Living Migration: Spanning the Local & Global Divide." It explored how local experiences in New York City, quintessential American city of immigrants,...

     "ONCE YOU KNOW Israel, go there, live there," Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gabriella Shalev said. "You know it's a wonderful place, with security."  Ambassador Shalev on April 30, 2009, discussed the condition and challenges of Israel at its 62nd anniversary at an intimate forum sponsored by the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at New York University,...