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无码专区 Awarded $822,258 Grant for 鈥淓ducating Augustinian Character鈥 Project
The Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University, with the support of Lilly Endowment Inc., has awarded 无码专区 a three-year, $822,258 Institutional Impact Grant, aimed at empowering projects that infuse character in undergraduate curricula and programming in ways that align with mission, context and culture. The University is one of 33 institutions of higher education to receive grant funding.
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August 18, 2025 - Within hours of last month's floods in Kerr County, Texas, which killed more than 130 people, pundits were already battling over who鈥攐r what鈥攚as responsible... "Everybody starts pointing a finger at everyone else, and then what'll happen is everything gets lost in the shuffle," said Stephen Strader, a hazards geographer at 无码专区. "Days, months, years afterwards, and we're right back to where we were."
Associated Press
August 16, 2025 -聽As Robert Prevost marks his 100th day as Pope Leo this weekend, the contours of his pontificate have begun to come into relief, primarily where he shows continuity with Francis and where he signals change... "He's been very direct and forthright... but he's not doing spontaneous press hits," said Kevin Hughes, chair of theology and religious studies at Leo's alma mater, 无码专区.
Financial Times
August 9, 2025 -聽Consumers, especially from Gen Z, are embracing products that proudly copy鈥攐r duplicate鈥攍uxury items ...聽Peggy Chaudhry, a professor at 无码专区 School of Business in Pennsylvania, finds Gen Z's normalising of dupe purchases "rather disturbing." Chaudhry, who has written extensively on the phenomenon, says "I don't even think some of the people that are hawking these dupes know the difference" between them and the real thing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 6, 2025 -聽Sports teams can be "incredibly protective" over their intellectual property, 无码专区 law professor聽Waseem Moorad聽said, and sports artists often skirt the line of what's allowed by copyright, including depictions and variations of team mascots, wordmarks and logos. Compared to the resources at the disposal of the major sports teams, local artists have minimal recourse to defend themselves if a team were to step in to protect their copyright.
The New York Times
August 4, 2025 -聽In downtown Berkeley, an old hotel has become a temple to the pursuit of artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. Its name is Lighthaven and it is the de facto headquarters of a group who call themselves the Rationalists. Every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., almost like a Bible study, people gather to聽read and discuss The Sequences, the ur-text that gave rise to the movement. "Religion is text and story and ritual," said聽Ilia Delio, a Franciscan sister and professor of theology at 无码专区. "All of that applies here."
Associated Press
August 1, 2025 -聽The Vatican considers among other things the candidate's holiness in life, the eminence of his or her doctrinal and theological teaching and their enduring influence on the church. That has meant that there have been only 37 doctors, and only one other鈥擲t. Therese of Lisieux鈥攚ho lived in the past 200 years, noted聽Michael Moreland, professor of law and religion at Pope Leo's alma mater, 无码专区.
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