My Social Science Scholars Project involved working with and learning from two international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) based in Cambodia and Nepal. This project stemmed from my desire to learn more about development work and locally-based grassroots initiatives. In Cambodia, I worked with the organization Children with Hope for Development (CHD), based in rural Takeo. I …
This past summer was a wonderful experience that helped me to develop as a researcher, artist, and leader. I gained a new, holistic perspective on the ways that individuals can initiate change and met many new and exciting individuals that I maintain contact with to this day. More than anything else, I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to face such an interesting and new challenge. I look forward to continuing the work I have done so far and seeing everything come to fruition.
EMHS Director David Merrick and Program Coordinator Laura Hart recently returned from Kilauea Volcano Lower East Rift Zone in Hawaii County, Hawaii. Through NSF funding and in partnership with Texas A&M University and private citizens, they were part of a five-person volunteer team from the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) to supplement existing …
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Our experiences at the DeVoe Moore Center have shown that the Millennial and Gen Z generations are an untapped resource of entrepreneurship and creativity waiting to be shaped by the right organizational leadership and structures. We are inspired and thriving because our Center happens to be located at the sweet spot in transition generations from students to professionals. By making the human resources shift to take advantage of an innate passion for achievement by enabling guided, bottom up, and goal directed effort, our younger works have leverage the experience and skills of more experienced staff to achieve significant growth in productivity and output.
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Because many people become addicted to opioids through trying to manage chronic pain, adults who are more religious could unintentionally put their health at risk by dismissing medical marijuana use in favor of a more traditional pharmaceutical drug that carries a higher risk of abuse and mortality.
It’s understandable that voters and officials are concerned about low-income workers and their families, but minimum wage increases have costs as well as benefits. One of these costs appears to be lower teenage employment, and most of these cities already have below-average teenage employment rates.
For our final project in our Policy Development and Administration class, we were tasked with analyzing a policy. Having recently learned about Florida's Amendment 4, Voting Rights Restoration for Felons from a different group's presentation, we both decided this could be an interesting and suitable topic for our final project. Neither of us expected what …
People cluster and cities grow because of what are broadly known as agglomeration economies. Agglomeration economies include things like knowledge spillovers that make workers and firms more productive, as well as the benefits that come from a thicker labor market, such as better employer-employee matches. Agglomeration economies are the forces that pull people together.
Since World War II, international organizations – entities like the African Union, Arab League, Council of Europe and the Commonwealth – have suspended member states ninety-five times. While some intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) suspend states after financial, economic, or military violations, the vast majority of IGO suspensions happen in response to political backsliding – such as human rights violations, coups democratic recession, or flawed elections.
