by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 6, 2020
Sasha Lezhnev is Deputy Director of Policy at The Sentry, where he focuses on conflict, governance, corruption, and corporate accountability issues in central Africa. He is also Founding Director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group, an organization that works to...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Feb 6, 2020
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity,...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jan 20, 2020
Dr. Timothy Medianick, Boulevard Dental Associates, Kenhorst, is a native of Ukraine. One of 10 children, his family immigrated to the United States when he was 13. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Dr. Medianick is a graduate of Messiah College and the Temple University of...
by WAC Reading | Jan 16, 2020
Academic World Quest is the flagship youth educational program of the national network of World Affairs Councils. It is a competition, sponsored by the WAC of Greater Reading, in which all local high schools can participate. World Quest subjects change each year but...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Jan 15, 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC With the ratification of the 19th Amendment, August 20, 1920, women gained the right to vote in the United States. One hundred years later, women are realizing an increasingly stronger presence in elective offices across...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Nov 16, 2019
In seven remarkable decades, East Penn Manufacturing, headquartered in Lyons, Pennsylvania, has grown from a one-room shop with a product line of five automobile batteries to one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers with over 10,000 employees, 450 product...
by WAC Reading | Nov 15, 2019
Acclaimed New York Times Columnist, David Brooks, will speak to Alvernia’s First Year Seminar classes on his book, “The Road to Character”, this year’s common read. David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September...
by WAC Reading | Nov 6, 2019
The third film in this year’s Global Oscar Film Series is the Lebanonese movie “Capernaum”. Hope you and/or your students can join us Tuesday, November 12, 6:15 pm in Luerssen 005. After running away from his poverty-stricken life in the slums of...
