Perspectives

Linguist M.J. Warsi, PhD, writes in Education Times that South Asia is becoming an increasingly important region to study and understand.

Rebecca Wanzo, PhD, associate director of the Center for the Humanities, reflects on Ferguson and Michael Brown for “Hold That Thought,” a podcast series from Arts & Sciences.

Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore became frustrated during medical school at the complexity of the U.S. health-care system and attempts to explain it. So they wrote The Health Care Handbook to help the next generation of doctors. The book, of which 14,000 copies have been sold, is being used by more than 60 academic programs. […]

Karren Watkins, a researcher at the Skandalaris Center, writes in Forbes about encouraging startups.

Josh Whitman, who became the John M. Schael Director of Athletics in August, talks about his vision and experience.

Alumnus Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, discusses how his education prepared him for entrepreneurship.

Carl Phillips’ “The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination” is reviewed in the Los Angeles Times.

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, PhD, writes in Religion & Politics about how events in Ferguson have given some people hope for a renewed effort to fight injustice.

Gerald Early, PhD, reviews “The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose” in The Washington Post.

Neil Richards, JD, writes a commentary for CNN about police use of body cameras.