The U.S. Constitution’s global influence is on the decline, finds a new study by David S. Law, JD, PhD, professor of law. Law, with co-author Mila Versteeg, DPhil, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, analyzed 60 years of data on the content of the world’s constitutions.
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Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton slices the cake in celebration of George Washington’s birthday Feb. 20 in Tisch Commons in the Danforth University Center. George Washington Week, an annual tradition celebrating the university’s namesake, is sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock and Chain.

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Disease-causing bacteria’s efforts to resist antibiotics may get help from their distant bacterial relatives that live in the soil, suggests new research by School of Medicine graduate student Kevin Forsberg. The researchers found identical genes for antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria and in pathogens from clinics around the world.

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Global economies and the Internet are upcoming topics in the Assembly Series. Economic forecaster and social observer Jeremy Rifkin (right) will speak at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in Graham Chapel. James Boyle, JD, professor at Duke Law School, will speak at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in the Anheuser-Busch Hall Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

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Clarissa Cagnato, a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, was among more than 60 graduate and professional students who presented research during the 17th annual Graduate Research Symposium Feb. 18. Graduate students presented their research to a broad and diverse audience, gaining important communications skills in the process.

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