The Will to Fight
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter stirred reaction in Baghdad and Washington this weekend when, in an appearance on CNN, he
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Rhode Island Students Awarded Pell Medal for U.S. History
Newport, R.I.—Sixty-six Rhode Island students earned the Herbert and Claiborne Pell Medal for U.S. History this year. The medal, administered
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We Remember | Memorial Day 2015
Gilgamesh, in the epic Mesopotamian poem, wanted to live forever, like the gods. But Gilgamesh was human. His mortality meant
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Pell Center Lecture Discusses U.S Government and Private Sector Cybersecurity Efforts, the Impacts of the NIST Framework
NEWPORT, R.I.—The Pell Center hosted a major cybersecurity lecture this month that featured Roger Cressey, an internationally known cybersecurity expert
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Story Day is the annual conference for Story in the Public Square, a partnership between the Pell Center and The
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A Pivot to the East in the Struggle for Power in Cyberspace
As the U.S. relationship with China and Russia continues to deteriorate—cyber-espionage accusations straining relations with the former, the crisis in
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Pick Your Poison: Ignoring Science at Our Own Peril
Throughout human history, our progress has been intimately linked to advances in science. Even in the so-called “dark ages,” the
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Lang ’18, Nuala Pell Fellow, to Present Paper at International Conference
NEWPORT, R.I. — Nuala Pell Leadership Fellow Jacob Lang has been accepted to present at the Empire and Nation: Undergraduate
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Fellow Spotlight: G. Wayne Miller
G. Wayne Miller, Pell Center visiting fellow and Story in the Public in the Square director, is a storyteller in
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