Basu is the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies in the Department of Economics at Cornell while Hassoun is a professor of philosophy at Binghamton University.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has made it painfully obvious that our global health system is badly broken," they write. "It caters to the demands of profit-driven pharmaceutical companies and the buying power of rich consumers and rich nations, at the expense of much of the world."
The event celebrates the arrival of a new sculpture in the atrium: a portrait of the Greek statesman Demosthenes, dressed in the cloak of an Athenian citizen and holding a papyrus scroll.
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False-color scanning electron micrograph of an array of released artificial cilia before they are put into motion. The cilia are electronically synchronized by temperature-sensing circuits to generate programmable fluid pumping