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06/30/20

The Road to Police Reform

By W. David Ball

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Meaningful police reform will happen only when citizens demand it from their locally elected leaders.

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Managing the Supply Chain Strain

By Naren Agrawal

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What supply chain managers can learn from the COVID-19 disruptions.

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Rethinking Retail Post Covid-19

By Kirthi Kalyanam

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For many brick-and-mortar stores lacking a robust online component, the mandated shut-down of their businesses has accelerated a “survival of the fittest” scenario.

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The Economic Tsunami of COVID-19

By Alexander Field

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Macroeconomics is not an experimental science; we learn from the experiments given to us by history. The COVID-19 pandemic is a defining macroeconomic event of this century.

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Why Some People Prepare for COVID-19—and Some Don't

By David Feldman

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Research on two factors separating who protects themselves from who doesn't.

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AFTERLIFE LESSONS FROM "THE GOOD PLACE"

By Eugene Schlesinger

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The unintentionally Augustinian outcome of the television series "The Good Place."

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Identifying the “Why” Behind America’s Opioid Crisis

By Jamie Chang

Jamie Chang

Study finds wide gulf of misconceptions, false assumptions between people addicted to opioids and the health care providers who treat them.

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The True Spirit of Valentine's Day

By Frederick Parrella

The goal of love is not to feel good about oneself, but to rejoice and delight in the other.

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Don’t Know Much About Geography

By Carolyn Trist

Carolyn Trist

A central theme in Carolyn Trist’s World Geography class is that where things happen is part of why things happen the way they do.

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The Power of Rituals to Heal Grief

By David Feldman

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Four questions can help develop a ritual for honoring loss and healing grief.