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David Batstone, founder of Not For Sale — a nonprofit with a mission to put an end to human trafficking and modern slavery — will be accepting the “Peace Award” from the United Nations later this week.

Sixty years after Dr. Terrence Roberts integrated an Arkansas high school, he urged East Cobb Middle School students to never give up when fighting to accomplish their goals.

Prof. Dave Montgomery is quoted in the Seattle Times about the formation of a beautiful disc of ice.

Charles Vogl’s work in ‘The Art of Community’ is featured in the most recent The FlyWheel Podcast.

Big Sonia, produced and directed by filmmaker Leah Warshawski, was recently screened at the Napa Film Festival where it  received Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature as well as the Audience Award for Favorite Documentary Feature. In it’s review, The Hollywood Reporter states “Engaging and thoughtful, the winner of the Napa Valley Film Festival’s top documentary prize would be a strong …

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Leah Warshawski’s Big Sonia is being featured at the DOC NYC, the largest film festival that features nonfiction films. The Jewish Week praises Sonia as “one of the most appealing figures on screen at this year’s excellent DOC-NYC festival”. Read more of The Jewish Week’s review of Big Sonia here.

What is the underlying cause of a landslide? David Montgomery explores this question as well as the role that logging may or may not have in landslides in a recent story with Public News Story, “The Conflict Between Landslides and Logging”.

Leah Warshawski discusses her film Big Sonia, the inspiration behind it and what’s next in the latest issue of Jewish in Seattle. You can check out the interview here.