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01/14/21

So You Set a New Year’s Resolution. Now What?

By David Feldman

Four traps that stop our resolutions in their tracks and how to avoid them.

United Nations World Food Programme recipient.

MY UNCLE, THE VISIONARY

By Hersh Shefrin

Frank Shefrin helped to build the United Nations' food aid program, winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

This is Fine meme, comic strip with dog sitting in burning building

This Is Fine...No, Seriously

By Hooria Jazaieri

Assistant Professor Hooria Jazaieri explains why it’s important to be thankful, especially in a world that sometimes feels like it’s on fire.

Treasure Your Connections, Even If You Can't Be With Them For A While Longer

The Mad Birder reflects on grandmom’s rolls and fairy slippers.

A historic illustration of witches being burned at the stake

Witches, Saints, and Heretics

By William Dohar

Lessons about the nature of “the outsider.”

THE SARTORIAL POLITICS OF THIS YEAR'S KEY SENATE RACES

By Jo-Ellen Pozner

How clothes can make the candidate.

Photo of a man walking with one prosthetic leg.

IMPROVING ACCESS FOR EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES

By Laura Ellingson

October’s 75th annual observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month speaks to the challenges of 61 million Americans who live with a disability, about one-third of whom are employed.

Photo of Junipero Serra statue on SCU campus.

Confronting A Controversial Campus Symbol

By Elizabeth Drescher

How do students learn to reckon with Santa Clara's complicated Mission history?

Celebrating Centennial of Women's Right To Vote

By Nancy Unger

Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. We look at this milestone of democracy and how gender equality has evolved since then.