An Education They Can Embrace
Professor Paula Salvio examines how education meets the needs of a changing Sicilian culture spurred by the youth-based anti-Mafia movement.
On May 23, 1992, immediately after news broke of the Mafia assassination of magistrate Giovanni Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo, a judge, people gathered in front of their apartment building in Palermo, Sicily, and began to decorate a large magnolia tree with tributes to them. Fifteen thousand people came to their funeral. Two months later, the Mafia also assassinated their colleague, magistrate Paola Borsellino. Together, Falcone and Borsellino had convicted hundreds of Mafiosi. ›› Read more.
Developing in Guatemala
People can’t always predict how a particular experience might shape their future—how choosing a certain path might transform a life. Recent graduate and anthropology major Amanda Dibble chose to spend her “gap” year before college traveling and working in Guatemala. ›› Read more.
Interstellar Affairs
One of Ben Cole’s earliest memories is of his dad coming home late from second shift, lifting Ben out of his crib, and settling in to watch Star Trek films together. So started Cole’s life-long love of science fiction films and literature. Cole is a lecturer in the International Affairs (IA) program who has developed a new course that explores IA theory through the lens of science fiction literature: IA 444, Science Fiction and Society. ›› Read more.
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