CONRAD C. WITTE – On October 1, 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided over the opening of the Turkish parliament[1] and declared that Turkey had reached the “end of the game” with its bid for European Union membership. President Erdogan announced that it was time for Brussels to finally make it clear if the […]
EMMA HOLLOWELL—The biomedical community was rocked on November 18, 2015 when the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced its decision to retire all of its chimpanzees and permanently end testing on the primates. Citing its June 2013 decision to greatly reduce the stock of chimpanzees used for testing , followed by the US Fish and […]
KRISTEN BARROS – On Wednesday, September 21, 2016, the United States put an end to decades worth of sanctions when they gave the “okay” to the direct sale of planes to Iran. American citizens will now be moving to Tehran, Iran. This will be the first time since the Islamism Revolution and the 1979 and […]
TYLER NEWTON – Beijing maintains independence is not an option for Hong Kong.[1] But don’t tell that to Hong Kong Separatist movement. Six candidates running under the pro-democracy separatist movement won seats during the September 4th Legislative Council (LegCo) elections.[2] All six of the winning candidates, each under 40 years old—including a 23 year old[3]—were […]
