Last week, the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience co-hosted “Medicine and Morality,” a virtual program to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, (Yom HaShoah), which began on the eve of April 7.

"This year's Miller Center partnership with the International March of the Living highlights contrasting approaches to this reality. By contrast, the last year has witnessed, amid the incalculable toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, acts of heroic compassion of countless doctors and health care professionals putting their own lives at risk -- and sometimes dying -- in order to treat, comfort and save the lives of others. There is no stronger repudiation of the Holocaust's atrocities -- which treated individual lives as valueless -- than the dedication of these medical professionals to the value of every human life," said John Farmer, director of the Miller Center and Eagleton, who aided in the symposium’s creation. 

The event was also co-hosted by the International March of the Living, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, and Teva Pharmaceuticals, in cooperation with the USC Shoah Foundation.

“The Miller Center joins with the March to work with legal groups, law societies and law schools in exposing the role the legal profession played in the Holocaust. These past actions undertaken by our organizations bring us to the importance of this special program -- the role of the medical profession in support of the Nazi party and implementation of the horror of the Holocaust," said Miller.

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Eagleton's Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) updated ongoing research and data collection about women holding state legislative leadership positions and the presidential cabinet to reflect the results of the 2020 election.

Women in State Legislative Leadership 2021
"In 2021, of the 350 state legislators holding leadership positions1 nationwide, 90, or 25.7%, are women. Women hold 39, or 24.1%, of the 162 leadership positions in state senates and 51, or 27.1%, of the 188 leadership positions in state houses.
Women hold leadership positions in 31 state senates and in 32 state houses; in 9 states, women do not hold leadership positions in either chamber," wrote CAWP.

Women Appointed to Presidential Cabinets
"Eleven women have been confirmed to serve in cabinet (6) and cabinet level (5) positions in the Biden administration. A total of 64 women have held a total of 72 such positions in presidential administrations, with eight women serving in two different posts. (These figures do not include acting officials.) Among the 64 women, 41 were appointed by Democratic presidents and 23 by Republican presidents. Only 12 U.S presidents (5D, 7R) have appointed women to cabinet or cabinet-level positions since the first woman was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933," wrote CAWP.

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The discussion will be led by Chintan Turakhia, executive vice president of strategic initiatives and innovations at SSRS, and Dr. Mansour Fahimi, executive vice president, and chief data scientist at the Marketing Systems Group.

Wednesday, April 14th at 5pm EST

The event is free for PANJAAPOR members and students. There is an associated cost of $20 for new PANJAAPOR members (2021 membership included). Eagleton students, faculty, and staff should register by contacting Maximo Vazquez at mvazquez@eagleton.rutgers.edu.

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Join the Eagleton and Rutgers University in welcoming CNN's Don Lemon as he talks about his new book, This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism.

Lemon shares "an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea" in offering his perspective on "how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them."

Elie Honig, an Eagleton Faculty Associate and CNN Legal Analyst, will host the session. Honing provides commentary and analysis for CNN on air and in print on breaking news relating to criminal justice, national security and other legal issues, including a weekly column and on-air segment “Cross-Exam with Elie Honig.”

Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway will offer opening remarks. A U.S. historian, Holloway took office as the 21st president of Rutgers on July 1, 2020. President Holloway’s scholarly work specializes in post-emancipation U.S. history with a focus on social and intellectual history. His most recent book, The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans, was published by Oxford University Press earlier this year.

Tuesday, April 20th at 5pm EST via Zoom.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Friday, April 23rd at 10AM EST via Zoom

The event is presented in partnership with the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the Rutgers Center for Critical Intelligence Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Application Deadline: Friday April 16th at 5pm EST. Email Jessica Ronan at jronan@eagleton.rutgers.edu with any questions.

Apply for the fall cohort of the Darien Civic Engagement Project. Accepted students will enroll in the  1.5 credit Topics in Political Science: Teaching Citizenship course (790:250).

In conjunction with their coursework, DCEP students will meet together on Thursdays from 10:55am to 12:15pm in a class meeting to discuss and implement the best practices of encouraging young people to complete their voter registration, and vote.

Students from all majors, years, schools and campuses are encouraged to apply.

Application deadline: Wednesday April 14, 2021 at 5pm EST. Email Jessica Ronan at jronan@eagleton.rutgers.edu with any questions.

Visit Eagleton's website for student internship and volunteer opportunities for this summer and also for the Fall semester.

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Gov. Murphy wins high approval ratings in first poll of this election year
"The Stockton poll has given Murphy lower approval ratings than other surveys throughout his first term as governor. His previous high was 53% approval and 39% disapproval in October.

That compared with a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll released in November that had Murphy at 62% positive and 33% negative, and a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey released in October giving the governor 60% approval and 31% disapproval ratings." - NJ.com

RU Ready teaches civic engagement to high school students near Rutgers
"RU Ready, a civic education program for high school students, has continued its activities in spite of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and is expanding to universities in the state and across the country.

The program was launched approximately 10 years ago at New Brunswick High School with the aim of teaching young adults how to become engaged in democratic processes, said Elizabeth Matto, associate research professor and director of the Center for Youth Political Participation at the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics." - The Daily Targum

Campaign Fund Idea Would Allow Spending On Caregiving
"Currently, 17 states allow campaign funds to be used for hiring caregivers, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. The Federal Election Commission also allows campaign funds to be used for caregiving." - NPR Illinois

One Republican’s Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation
Last week, The New York Times published an article featuring former U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman and his work to call attention to the threat of disinformation. Rep. Riggleman wrote the foreword for the latest report about disinformation, released by the Miller Center and the Network Contagion Research Institute. Learn more: The New York Times

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