Macroeconomic historian and Smith alumna Gillian Brunet ’08 gave a talk titled “Stimulus on the Home Front: the State-Level Effects of World War Two Spending” last Friday to Smith students and faculty.
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Cape Town is set to run out of water in June.
According to USA Today, Cape Town has imposed a limit of 13.2 gallons of water per day. Members of the Cape Town community have severely cut back on showering, washing and flushing toilets to try to prolong the water source, but with 3.7 million people living in the metropolitan area, every drop counts.
The opioid epidemic resulted in the direct and indirect deaths of 30,000 lives in 2015 in the U.S., according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). This number has continued to rise rapidly.
With Airbnb’s rising popularity, residents of Northampton and the Pioneer Valley are weary of the effect that the industry will have on local businesses.
Last Thursday, the Study of Women and Gender and Engineering Departments hosted a forum on diversity in the construction force. At the “Only 3% Are Women?! A Forum on Diversifying the Construction Workforce” talk on Feb. 15, panelists and representatives of the administration discussed the necessity of a more diverse representation of women and people of color in the construction industry.
Last Thursday, the Study of Women and Gender and Engineering Departments hosted a forum on diversity in the construction force. At the “Only 3% Are Women?! A Forum on Diversifying the Construction Workforce” talk on Feb. 15, panelists and representatives of the administration discussed the necessity of a more diverse representation of women and people of color in the construction industry.
With Airbnb’s rising popularity, residents of Northampton and the Pioneer Valley are weary of the effect that the industry will have on local businesses.
The opioid epidemic resulted in the direct and indirect deaths of 30,000 lives in 2015 in the U.S., according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). This number has continued to rise rapidly.
Cape Town is set to run out of water in June.
Responding to the Las Vegas shooting and other mass shootings in the United States, the state of Massachusetts has recently banned the sale of bump stocks. The ban removes bump stocks from stores and prevents their private use within the state.