In the News

Cummings School’s Marieke Rosenbaum comments on the inflated health dangers associated with rats saying, “They can carry and transmit diseases we can catch, but the reality is that, at least in most North American cities, [transmission] doesn’t happen with high frequency.”

Friedman School’s William Masters offers his take on food-waste apps.

Cumming School’s Sam Telford warns that this will be a "tremendous year" for mosquitoes, noting that warming weather and the abundance of standing water will lead to “a huge emergence in May."

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted about Apple’s efforts to diversify its manufacturing and assembly chains away from China, investing in countries such as Vietnam, India, and Indonesia.

Fletcher’s Tom Dannenbaum comments on Israel’s attack on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy saying, “In the case of doubt as to a convoy or person’s status, one is to presume civilian status. And so, attacking in the context of doubt is itself a violation of international humanitarian law.”

Elizabet Stites of the Friedman School’s Feinstein International Center discusses the factors contributing to the rise in aid worker attacks and the implications of the World Central Kitchen workers’ deaths.

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal comments on how cutting Gaza off from aid is a violation of social norms set during conflicts over the past few decades, noting that death from starvation won’t end when hostilities cease. De Waal is the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.

In this two-part On Point radio segment, Fletcher CIERP faculty affiliate Alvin Camba discusses the online series of scams by Chinese organized crime groups known as pig-butchering as well as his experience being harassed online by these groups for his research into the scams.

A&S quantum computing researcher Sola Mahfouz discusses her efforts to bring awareness to the Taliban’s law banning Afghan girls from attending school, including developing online educational resources for women in Afghanistan and curriculum for teachers in the U.S. to educate students. Mahfouz is the author ofDefiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for an Education