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Collegial Connections

Mutual fund managers tend to invest more heavily in companies headed by senior officers who attend the same universities as the fund mangers. Futhermore, those investments tend to be more fruitful than their holdings in firms with which they have no co...

Blowing the Whistle

New research suggests that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claims Act to corporate fraud.

Know What I'm Thinking?

Much of everyday behavior is directed toward understanding, responding to, or attempting to change how we are seen by the people around us. We can be easily led astray, however, by common errors in these perceptions. New research shows us that when we ...

UnCommon Core | Planting Seeds: Human Rights Internships and Life in the Real World

The Human Rights Program hosts a panel about how an interest in human rights doesn't mean you have to drop out of school to save the world, and how internships in the field transfer to the real world.

2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture

A bequest from Trustee Edward L. Ryerson, Jr., was the catalyst for the Ryerson Lecture series. Upon receiving the bequest, President Edward Levi suggested to the Board of Trustees that a fund be established to support special faculty lectures. The boa...

Q & A with Piotr Sommer

Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Ro...

Poetry Reading by Piotr Sommer

Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Ro...

Thoughts on Poetics

Leslie Scalapino's It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was recently released by University of California Press at Berkeley. Wrote Robert Creeley: "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection,' because this work is...