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A student looks at the election results at a watch party at Warren Towers on Tuesday. Many Boston University students and faculty expressed concern about the future of their civil and reproductive rights. AVA RUBIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU students, faculty react to presidential election results

Josh Rosenthal November 7, 2024
Following the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States on Wednesday, students and faculty at Boston University say they are “shocked,” and “confused.”
Visiting Assistant Professor Amber Vayo. Vayo is teaching a coveted seminar course on the politics of childbirth in the College of Arts and Sciences. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Intersection of politics, reproduction explored in new seminar course

Anna Albrecht February 2, 2024
In a climate where reproductive freedom is a critical centerpiece of conversation, Amber Vayo, a visiting assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is revealing the complexities of the politics of childbirth in a new seminar course.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

The Cost of Conflict | Bad Business

Nathan Metcalf October 31, 2022
Most major conflicts of the modern age have indeed been fought for the pursuit or protection of profit, not by PMC’s, but by governments. 
Professors Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, Taylor Boas and Julie Klinger partake in a panel on the implications of the Brazilian election Thursday afternoon. SOPHIE PARK/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pardee School panel addresses implications of Brazilian election on future of democracy

Hannah Edelman November 13, 2018
Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira remembers sitting in his apartment in Washington, D.C., when Jair Bolsonaro was announced president-elect of Brazil. The populist candidate, who ran on a platform of far-right conservatism and militant ideology, has been compared by many political scientists — including Teixeira — to U.S. President Donald Trump.
EDIT: College Promises We Can't Keep

EDIT: College Promises We Can’t Keep

Editors January 22, 2015

U.S. President Barack Obama has big plans for the future of higher education during his last two years of presidency, and not everyone is happy about it. The proposal, called “America’s College Promise,”...

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LISINSKI: The European Fallacy

Chris Lisinski November 24, 2014

Let me make a nice blanket statement here: Europe is not better than the United States. As I’m sure many of you already know, attempting to rank countries by some metric of “goodness” is about as...

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