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Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke to a full auditorium in the Student Union Monday about challenges facing the new democratic government in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide. The genocide in Rwanda occurred in 1994, when the Hutu Power political party took control of the government and propagandized the mass murder of the minority, upper-class Tutsis.
Is it constitutional for the government to take a citizen's privately owned land? That was the main focus of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Kelo v. New London, and in a discussion held Monday as part of an educational program celebrating Constitution Day at the Dodd Center.
Two commonly prescribed classes of drugs have been shown to reduce patients' risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes in a new study conducted by three UConn researchers. Pharmacy Professors Craig Coleman, C. Michael White and Effie Gillespie did the study, a meta-analysis involving 11 trials and 66,608 patients, found that the use of any ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) will reduce a patient's risk of diabetes.