- Experts from several different academic disciplines participated in a panel discussion to provide facts and context about the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. Several University of Illinois faculty members participated in the panel: Dr. Gay Miller (Veterinary Medicine) described the biology of Ebola and how the disease is transmitted Dr. Barry Pittendrigh (Integrative Biology)...
- The Global Health Initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a campus-wide coalition of students and faculty which aims to: Coalesce a research community around global health issues on the Urbana-Champaign campus Create capacity for future interdisciplinary research on global health issues Promote first-hand exposure to global health issues for graduate students and...
- Pakistan is home to some of the world’s most treacherous borders, armed with nuclear weapons, and beset by terrorist bombings and assassinations. NATO’s recent deadly airstrike on two Pakistani frontier outposts has added to the uncertainty of continued U.S.-Pakistan cooperation. Multiple crises befell this critical relationship during the past year—from the repatriation of CIA contractor Raymond...
- On November 10, Claudia Gazzini, Visiting Professor at Northwestern University; Paul Diehl, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Khaled Al-...