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Four Penn faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Four Penn faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences The new members of the Academy, honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research, include researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Annenberg School for Communication. As newly elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, (clockwise from top left) Marisa Bartolomei and M. Celeste Simon from the Perelman School of Medicine, Michael Kearns from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Diana C. Mutz from the Annenberg School for Communication join a class of honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research. 

White angst keeps Trumpism alive in Macomb County

Democrats were in trouble. It was November 1984, and white, working-class voters in Macomb County had overwhelmingly voted for President Ronald Reagan for a second term. The Dems were losing their suburban, blue-collar base, and nowhere was the loss more pronounced than in Macomb County, home of the white, unionized autoworker. Just 20 years earlier, three-quarters of Macomb County voters turned out for President Lyndon Johnson, making it the most heavily Democratic suburban county in the U.S. To figure out what happened, local Democratic Party leaders hired Yale professor and pollster Stanley Greenberg. In March 1985, Greenberg sat down with Macomb County s Democratic defectors in hotel rooms and restaurants. After more than a month of interviews, Greenberg came to an startling conclusion: White, working-class voters who long identified as Democrats were fed up, fearful, and increasingly xenophobic. Their manufacturing jobs, which provided de

BU's Jessica Stern on Why January 6 Attack on Capitol Was an Act of Terrorism | BU Today

Twitter Facebook Jessica Stern has spent more than two decades studying and writing about white supremacists and other extremists who call for armed conflict. But even she was shocked by the violence that exploded at the Capitol on January 6 and by the talk she saw online about what might come next.  A research professor at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Stern’s main focus is on the perpetrators of violence and their motivations. She has interviewed white-identity terrorists in the United States, jihadis in Pakistan, neo-Nazis in European prisons and more recently, a former Serbian warlord convicted of genocide for atrocities committed against Muslims during the Bosnian War.