Alison S. Brooks (George Washington University) and John E Yellen (National Science Foundation) are members of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program and its Olorgesailie Research

CAREERS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Focus on International Development & Security* w/special guest Aly Rahim '02 Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank

Lieutenant General, United States Army (Retired) Director, Defense Intelligence Agency 2012-14

Ambassador Ahmed discusses the perceptions & misperceptions of Islam after 9/11, and findings of a quartet of studies examining relations between the West and the World of Islam.

Adventure, Learning, and Leadership on the World's Rivers and Oceans

"Approaches to statistical modeling of concentrations of arsenic in groundwater"

China expert and GWU Prof. Shambaugh surveys the main challenges facing China at present & assesses the steps the government is taking to meet them through new reform policies.

Poet Fred Moten 2014 National Book Award Finalist, author of "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition" (University of Minnesota Press), as well as many others.

Bob Kelly - University of Wyoming Are Warfare and Homicide Responsible for the Low Population Growth Rates of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers?

"From Subduction to collision along the Indo-Asian Suture: Mountains that feed rivers that feed mountains, or how the snake eats its tail"