As of today, climate change has become a serious and growing threat that is not leaving any country immune from extreme weather events. Consequently, the increases in temperature, the changes in precipitation patterns, and more floods or droughts that were – and are still- occurring frequently…

You probably remember me. I have been writing you from San Ignacio Belize where I was attending a study abroad at Galen University during the spring09 semester.
Well this time, I would like to share with you my new experience of the fall09. I am actually in Copenhagen Denmark on another study abroad semester at the [...]

25 Years: Photography and Sculpture Alike
Staten Island, New York: August 3, 2009 – Papouli’s, (9 Hyatt Street), is pleased to present Stephen Barnett’s quarter-century culminated thesis works of, Photographic Sculpture; which are manifestations of the symbiotic relationship between realism and formalism. These works play with the three-dimensional quality of a twodimensional world. The exhibition will [...]

Manhattan can make you forget there’s a big world out there. A world where crisis is not defined by a wrong order at Starbucks. Where uproars don’t start over plastic lawn chairs in Times Square.
No, out in the big world there are bigger problems to tackle. Like reducing poverty, economic development, and choices between morality [...]

First week: June 26-July 4
I’ve studied Israel/Palestine as a whole extensively before coming here, but nothing could prepare me for what I’ve seen this past week.
I came to Israel/Palestine to do research on the legal procedures for West Bank Palestinians to appeal the “Separation Barrier” (the term used for what is being built is highly controversial, and [...]

Today marks the beginning of the Holocaust Era Assets conference being held in Prague and organized by the organization I’m working with. It is the last large event that will be held during the Czech Republics tenure as president of the EU. It also marked an extraordinarily interesting day for me.

I am living on a hill top about a five minute walk from Prague Castle. The hill is covered in cobble-stone streets and long winding stone stairways that cascade down the hillside like streams after the spring thaw.

Hello all! I have had an incredible summer so far. I was lucky enough to attend the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference and preconference this year- an intensive 12 day, 8 am – 10 pm workshop production conference committed to advancing the art of puppetry.

I have had the great fortune to be able to serve as a research assistant for this summer to my faculty mentor, Professor Edwin G. Burrows of Brooklyn College. My area of concentration is Eighteenth-Century American History, and we are looking into the effects of the American Revolution on small communities and civilian life, in general.

I’m writing from Tokyo. I just got here today. I’m a film student in the BA Program…My New York agency Rocket Garage has set me up to work here in Tokyo with Loop Management. I went to a casting already – fresh off the plane