More Women Needed to Close the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap: Picks of the Week
Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis with Joseph Sakran
Rebroadcast Dates: May 4-10, 2020 Air Dates: September 23-29, 2019 On an otherwise typical Friday night in 1994, 17-year-old Joseph Sakran, a high school student in Northern Virginia, was shot through his throat by an errant bullet from a fight at a high school football game. Trauma surgeons saved his life, launching him on a career as a trauma surgeon and as a leading voice against gun violence. Dr. Joseph … Read More
Nuala Pell Leadership Program Selects Fellows for 2020-2021
Newport RI—Ten rising juniors and seniors at Salve Regina University have been selected as fellows for the Nuala Pell Leadership Program for 2020-2021. This innovative leadership development program is run by the Pell Center and is named in honor of the wife of U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell. The program facilitates leadership development for the twenty-first century through monthly meetings where students will explore leadership theory, ethics, evolution of public issues … Read More
As Much as We Want it to Be, The Pandemic Isn’t Over
Bridging The Divide With Susan Rice
Rebroadcast Dates: April 27-May 3, 2020 Air Dates: December 9-15, 2019 Politics, it’s often said, is a tough game. But lost in the back and forth over policies are the lives of public servants who pay a very real toll for their service. Ambassador Susan Rice knows that experience better than most. Rice served as the U.S. National Security Advisor under President Barak Obama from 2013 to 2017. She was … Read More
Globalization: Not Dead Yet
Every fall I teach a course on the history of globalization. It is the highlight of my year and it gives me a seemingly endless supply of grist for understanding. So when I read an article from The Los Angeles Times that claimed the Coronavirus may threaten globalization, it set my wheels turning because it speaks to a popular misunderstanding of what globalization actually is. More than a century before … Read More
The Social Impact of Story with Danny Strong
Rebroadcast Dates: April 20-26, 2020 Air Dates: July 29-August 4, 2019 “Story in the Public Square” began as an annual, academic conference at Salve Regina University. When we honored Danny Strong with the 2014 Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square, his acceptance speech was so moving, so incisive, and so eloquent about the power of story that a public television executive in the audience asked if she could broadcast … Read More
Russian Disinformation in the Age of Coronavirus
Just because there’s a global pandemic doesn’t mean that the great game of international politics takes a break. In fact, just like the rest of society, international powers are adapting to—and in some cases exploiting—the Coronavirus. The two most aggressive players are Russia and China, and while they have different international objectives, they are both aggressively pursuing their goals. In Russia’s case, the government of President Vladimir Putin continues to … Read More
Dead Man Walking: Life, Death and Justice with Sister Helen Prejean
Rebroadcast Dates: April 13-19, 2020 Original Air Dates: April 21-27, 2018 Since 1976, nearly 1,500 Americans have been executed in the name of justice. Sister Helen Prejean though, cautions about the human cost of the death penalty and the innocent victims wrongfully put to death. Sister Helen Prejean joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957, now known as the Congregation of St. Joseph, and received a B.A. … Read More
An Ode to Government Inefficiency in the age of COVID-19
When is it okay to start thinking about life after the virus? It’s hard to ask that question because the news is still bad in so many places. The crest of the pandemic hasn’t arrived anywhere in the United States and we’re looking at more days of sickness, and isolation, and, tragically, death. Yet, there are questions we will need to grapple with as we begin to rebuild. Perhaps no … Read More