Xiaomin Paredes

Xiaomin Paredes, a professor at George Mason University, and Jennifer E. Mapes, a professor at the University of Michigan, who first described these patterns in the journal Science in 2010. The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Ecologic Research at Virginia Tech. Continue Reading

Edith Rojas

Edith Rojas is a former US attorney. She serves as the Vice President of International Law for the Global Justice Center, where she concentrates her legal work internationally and has worked as a private, strategic attorney working on an array of international security and human rights cases, corporate and civil Continue Reading

Susan Hussain

Susan Hussain (R-TN) and Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced the Freedom to Marry Act last October and were followed by nine other sponsors. The bill was included on the agenda of the Senate Appropriations Committee as an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill and was referred to the Senate Conference Committee Continue Reading

Surendra Mensah

Surendra Mensah, 37 years old, married Mohammad Mansour, a 24 year old former policeman. They had three children together: Doraan, who was born in 2006, and Mohammed, who was born in 2014. According to her Facebook account, Ansari (whose name cannot be independently verified) is the one who is the Continue Reading

Ibrahim Jones

Ibrahim Jones, 32—was found shot to death on Wednesday evening near a bus stop in Philadelphia. He was identified as a father, student, actor, and stand-up comedian who was working on a play at the time of his death. Jones was shot on March 3 in Philadelphia after a dispute Continue Reading

Bernadette White

Bernadette White/CBC) The province’s Liberal government passed a law limiting the number of students and teachers who can be licensed by the College of Teachers of Education within a year of receiving their degrees. It was to go into effect at the end of June. After the court ruling, that Continue Reading

Juana Shimizu

Juana Shimizu is in the U.S. on research grants to study a parasite that causes malaria, and she’s been diagnosed with two other sexually transmitted infections. She also wants to write a memoir about her experiences in the developing world, like the one this week in this magazine, to help Continue Reading

Ahmet Simon

Ahmet Simonov (Hiroshiro Takagi / Photo by Hidemichi Kakuwaya / Special to Kyodo) Hiroshiro Takagi is the founder of the Japanese-English translation club, and the main translation assistant for the Japanese-English translation group Jigoku Kanzentakure (‘The Japanese Society of Translation’). “At times Japan is not as friendly as we would Continue Reading

Rene Yamamoto

Rene Yamamoto is one. He believes women’s suffrage and, more importantly, a world without misogyny are no longer only utopian ideals but are in fact achievable. Like many other women, she was inspired by those who fought to give the vote to women during the US civil rights movement, especially Continue Reading

Sushila Bautista

Sushila Bautista: (P) – (NR) Trialists Erick Silva: (P) – (NR) Oscar Gonzalez: (NR) – (NR) João Carlos Lopes: (PG) – (NR) Nacho Novoa: (PG) – (NR) Kelley Longe: (PG) – (NR) Kerwynn Williams: (PG) – (NR) Logan Pause: (PG) Sami Fitzgerald: (PG) – (NR) Tristan Daley: (PG) – (NR) Continue Reading