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Reflecting on the Impact of Environmental Training Over the last decade, the Henry Luce Foundation has funded $30 million in environmental initiatives to enhance academic training and research as well as support ground-breaking projects of environmental organizations. The foundation has now turned to the Watson Institute to assess the overall impacts, lessons learned, and critical needs remaining from its initiative for those who would wish to mobilize environmental knowledge in the service of global public goods. Under a $150,000 grant, Watson will conduct research and host a conference including Luce grantees, among other activities. Team to Research Inequality and Democracy in Brazil |
In the Times: Blyth Describes Public's Disillusion The American public is suffering a crisis of confidence as it watches long-running debate over financial regulatory reform and the slow-motion solution of the BP oil spill, according to the New York Times’ Week in Review last Sunday. “There’s this feeling in both cases that you were forced to watch them make sausages for several months,” Watson Faculty Fellow Mark Blyth said in an interview.
Slate Reviewer Praises 'Sex, Drugs & Body Counts' |
On Video: The Future of Progressive Politics Two major Institute events during the past academic year gauged the future of progressive politics. Now on video, they feature former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and former Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer analyzing trends in the United States and Europe. |