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NPR “Talk of the Nation”
Todd Farchione, College of Arts & Sciences, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers write that a brief therapy session with people who had a lifelong phobia of spiders resulted in lasting changes to brain areas that process fear…
Wall Street Journal
Kevin Gallagher, College of Arts & Sciences
Senior House Democrats have urged the Obama administration to ensure that trade and investment agreements allow governments to impose capital controls, warning that volatile speculative flows involving developing economies can pose a risk to the global financial system…
MyrtleBeachOnline
Jennifer Wright Knust, College of Arts & Sciences
Dear Christians, It is not holy to hate. It is not divine to discriminate. It is not sacred to segregate…
Huffington Post
Mark Williams, School of Management
Financial crises are a lot like childbirth — they both involve a lot of pain and end up costing you a lot of money…
Boston Globe
David Scott Palmer, College of Arts & Sciences
A day after Mitt Romney addressed the Latino Coalition, the presumptive Republican nominee released a second Spanish-language ad outlining the agenda for his first day in office…
Christian Broadcasting Network
N. Venkat Venkatraman, School of Management
Did certain people have inside information ahead of Facebook’s stock offering last week?…
PoliticoArena
Tom Fiedler, College of Communication
There is a story – relevant here – that when Franklin D. Roosevelt was campaigning for president in 1932 he delivered a speech in Pittsburgh citing the importance of a balanced budget…
The Atlantic
Jeanne Paratore, School of Education
The Atlantic‘s Technologies in Education Forum on May 22 brought together experts and stakeholders from across sectors for a stimulating, in-depth look at how technology can and should reshape American education…
USA Today
John Carroll, College of Communication
A high-profile congressional race in Massachusetts may duplicate the rare deal to ban outside ads in the Senate race between Republican Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren— but the idea is having trouble getting off the ground anywhere outside the state…
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