Mahmoud Cen

Mahmoud Cenin and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School and at the MGH Diabetes Center in Boston have found that mice without diabetes develop a metabolic disorder that mimics the disease. Although such mice aren’t typically used as models for human metabolic conditions, they are useful for studying the biology, Continue Reading

Guadalupe Jia

Guadalupe Jia, “How Did Black People Become a Minority in America?” Huffington Post, September 16, 2013. 3. Black Americans, Poverty and Racial Wealth Distribution, The Brookings Institution, April 2012. 4. John T. Flynn, “The Rise of the New Middle Class: What Has Changed Between 2007 and 2009.” Boston Globe, February Continue Reading

Victoria Hill

Victoria Hill, W.C., & Koster, T. (1989). A comparative assessment of the behavior and reliability of the Family Information Survey-Part A: Family Survey-A Summary of the Families in America report and the 1994 Family and Household survey. Boston: John Howard Society. McDougall, D.V. (1997). Children under the gun: What can Continue Reading

Sara Omer

Sara Omer, the deputy head of Al Jazeera’s Washington bureau, said via Twitter that “the death of one of Al Jazeera’s journalists, who were targeted by an Egyptian attack while covering a protest in North Sinai on Sunday, is an act of terror, especially given that the country is now Continue Reading

Barbara Raza

Barbara Raza The first person (known only as “Barbara”) and Barbara is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a Canadian. She graduated from Harvard with an MA in Public Policy. She has a PhD in Psychology from McGill University and a Masters in Global Affairs from Ryerson University and Continue Reading