Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
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Injury. But first a check on the forecast with katie. Freezing weekend, more of the same . Welshing i mean, not thankfully as cold as it is going to get today. You know, eventually these temperatures are going to absolutely plummet, and we will be lucky to even hit 30 degrees by the time we hit the middle part of the week which well get to. But this is will get you out the doorment could be little tricky shall specially out south jersey, no major additional accumulations, here but what you are finds something at least some flurries, and potential for some slick travel. Current temperature readings generally low to mid 30s, down to the 20s in mount pocono, cold start, feeling like were starting to get used to this here. Trust me folks nothing compared to whats on the way which again we will get to. So this morning, yes, few flurries are out there. If it looks wet, assume that it is icy. We dont have any major black ice concerns. However, i would not be shock if there were some places wh
And a be in and an ab and sociology at university of california berkeley with highest honors in sociology, and, i like this one, great distinction in general scholarship. The latter of these honors not only recognized marys undergraduate achievements but foreshadowed her future. At yell, mary earned a jd from the law school and an m. A. And phd in american studies, the last of these under the direction of robert cook and david brian davis. With what we might call these five degrees of preparation, mary embarked on a storied journey in the academy, after clerking for the Fourth Circuit court of appeals, she joined the faculty at the university of iowa, serving as associate professor and then professor of law and history. From the heartland, mary moved west, expecting accepting appointment with the professor of law, history, and Political Science at the university of Southern California before moving east to take her chair at emory. Along this path mary took visiting faculty appointment
See certain the Congressional Black Caucus foundation discussion is available on cspan. Org. Well leave this and take you to a discussion in washington on financial regulations and their role in the u. S. Economy. Youll hear from robert cook, president and chief executive officer of the financial industry regulatory authority. Live coverage here on cspan3. Robert and i talking about developments. Were going to have you, the audience, become part of the discussion. Let me take a minute or two to discuss or frame our discussion and then introduce robert. A regulator of central importance although not widely understood and a lot of people dont know a lot of things about it. It is commonly called a Self Regulatory Organization or sro. Its a delaware not for profit corporation. It is not a Government Agency. Yet, it is important in terms of its size and scope. It has a budget of approximately 1 billion which compares to the s. E. C. s budget of 1. 6 billion. It has approximately 3,500 emplo