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Governors’ Film Screening & Conversation: The Toughest Job

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Join us in the FedEx Global Education Center for a film screening and conversation with former Mississippi Governor William Winter and former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt. This Southern Documentary Project film received the 2015 Emmy for Best Historical Documentary … Read more

Chancellor’s Water Lecture

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UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt, an internationally recognized environmental scientist whose research has focused on the effects of mercury and arsenic on human and ecosystem health, salmonid fisheries management and restoration, and global climate change, will deliver the lecture “Water … Read more

A Conversation with Peter Blair Henry Moderated by Bill Harrison

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Many Third World countries weathered the storm of the Great Recession much better than the traditional powerhouses of the First World. Why is that? Economist Peter Blair Henry, dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business, takes a novel approach to … Read more

Water in Our World Speaker Series

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Can coral reefs be saved?  Chemical ecology as a Rosetta stone for effective conservation. Mark Hay, Professor and Harry and Linda Teasley Chair in Environmental Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Coral reefs are in dramatic global decline, with losses of … Read more

Global American South Conference

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A collaboration between the Global Research Institute, the Center for Global Initiatives, and the Center for the Study of the American South, the conference brings together academics, practitioners, and the community to focus on the theme “Globalization, the Economic Crisis, … Read more

A Conversation with Larry Summers

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Global Research Institute Advisory Board Chair William B. Harrison interviewed Larry Summers as part of the institute’s speaker series. For more information about this event, click here.