In Bangladesh, Gen-Z student-led protests recently forced the downfall of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The swearing in of Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus earlier this month as interim leader has brought enough hope that many in Bangladesh are calling it a “second liberation,” half a century after the country won independence, writes Sabrina Karim, associate professor of government, in an op-ed in Time. She has done research on the Bangladesh military and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis.
“To ensure that Bangladesh 2.0 is successful, key reforms must not wait for a democratically elected government,” Karim writes in the piece. “Rebuilding key institutions now will help guardrail against democratic backsliding under any future government.”
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From left, Xi Yang, PhD '10, senior lecturer of finance in the SC Johnson College of Business; Christine Ye; Christine Ye Award recipient Margaret E. Foster, doctoral candidate in communication; Cornelia Ye Award recipient Naman Agrawal, doctoral candidate in neurobiology and behavior; Cornelia Ye; and Derina Samuel, associate director of graduate student development at the Center for Teaching Innovation.
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Artist concept of the gas giant planet WD 1856 b orbiting a white dwarf star. The planet is 7 times larger than the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. WD 1856 b has methane and hazes in its atmosphere, which would give it a similar color to Saturn's moon Titan. The white dwarf formed from a star that died 5 billion years ago, and has been cooling ever since, giving it an orange colour similar to the Sun.
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Dressed in clean-room suits, the Warrior-Scholar Project’s STEM boot camp cohort toured the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility.
