The Daily Campus

UNESCO collects books for Bugesera

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

For all of the fall 2009 semester, UNESCO Student Ambassadors for human rights have been collecting books for Books for Bugesera, an international book-drive for the first English speaking public library in Rwanda.

At the end of 2008, Rwanda started an initiative to transform from being a Francophone to an Anglophone nation.

Nature must be given value in political, economic decisions

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Must there always be a trade-off between economic success and protecting the environment? According to Dr. Steve Polasky, not necessarily.

The Edwin Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment continued Thursday afternoon at the Dodd Research Center with Dr.

Stories of Gitmo lawyers at Dodd Center

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT

On Thursday afternoon, Alexandra Lehav laid bare the realities of being a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay during a lecture at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Lehav, who is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, has been conducting interviews with former Guantanamo lawyers in order to determine the effects the military tribunals had on them and their careers.