By: Alyssa Lucca, Ara Michelle Aranguri, Bianca Beyrouti, Ivan Sunguroff, and Thomas Fisher The film is based on several artists’ lives and work on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Along
By Advait Praturi Dr. Asim Khwaja, associate professor and economist from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke at IICAS about the state of education of children in Pakistan and the
By Claire Halbrook “Women aren’t the problem, they’re the solution along with men.” Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, recently spoke at UC San Diego about
By Helen Yu I can’t help but think about my time in Honduras every time I take a drink of water from my kitchen faucet. Even the tap water here, what
By Katia Gomez In 2007, not only was the pharmaceutical industry proclaimed the 3rd most profitable industry of the United States by Fortune Magazine, surpassed only by oil production and the
By Ariel Lee Forsaken is a short documentary created by a team of international students to raise awareness on the issue of Hong Kong’s elderly living in poverty. Significantly, it
By Charles Bae David Najar is currently teaching the Muir Writing course, “Jafar, Mosques and Terrorism: Investigating our Representations of the Middle East,” and working on his PhD in Literature. He
By Apratim Ghosh The state of West Bengal was once the beacon of India’s education system. Famed universities such as Presidency College and celebrated scholars including Nobel Laureate Rabindanarth Tagore could
By Andrew Guichet The De Beers Diamond Cartel is arguably the most successful cartel in history both in terms of profit and longevity. For nearly 130 years, the cartel has
By Kathleen Richter Executive Summary: In spite of the Millennium Development Goals and over fifteen years of foreign aid involvement in Bolivia, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) remains high. Unequal income distribution
Children and Their Use in Armed Conflict in Chattisgarh, India By Advait Praturi Executive Summary “We are inevitably our brother’s keeper… whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The purpose
By Dipan Patel Executive Summary: In a nation where the cost of healthcare is unaffordable for 80% of the population, public health policy must be restructured to be inclusive of the latest
