This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. …with the world more attuned to risk, lessons can be drawn to strengthen response and resilience. In 2020, the risk of a pandemic became reality. …
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This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. Presenter: Candace Gossen, Ronin Institute Research Scholar Date: Feb 12, 2021Time: 2:00-3:00 PM US Eastern Time / 19:00-20:00 UTC (in your local time) Add to your …
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This series of blog posts introduces some of the guiding principles that we use at the Ronin Institute to help the community be its best. Our last post was on Pay it Forward. In our Code of Conduct, we emphasize an individual’s right to their “peaceful enjoyment” of participating in the Ronin Institute. Here’s one key thing …
By Ronin Research Scholar Jonathan Walter I’ve decided to leave traditional academia and pursue different ways to be a scientist. If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to share about why, and what I’m doing next. Let’s be real, this wasn’t my first choice. Being a professor had long been my dream, and I spent more …
By Ronin Research Scholar Ralph Haygood Remember when the World Wide Web was new and shiny (albeit somewhat rickety)? It wasn’t very long ago. Like me, many Ronin Research Scholars no doubt can recall the widespread excitement about the new medium. I was in graduate school when the web took off and became part of …
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This new installment of “Better Know a Ronin Scholar” continues on the theme of public health. In late October I spoke to UK-based Research Scholar Michelle King-Okoye (pronoun: she/her). Michelle’s research is primarily in the areas of health inequality, and health and illness experience, including prostate cancer research and research surrounding men’s health and minority …
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This seminar is part of the Ronin Institute Public Seminar Series, featuring our Research Scholars. We welcome members of the public, but please register ahead of time to get the meeting link. Presenter: Bruce Caron, Ronin Institute Research Scholar Date: Jan 29, 2021Time: 1:00-2:00 PM US Eastern Time / 18:00-19:00 UTC (in your local time)Add to your calendarHosted by: John …
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At our Ronin Institute Holiday Party in December 2020, we had a trivia game asking attendees to guess the quantity of some of our accomplishments for 2020. Here are the questions and answers. How many Kitsune Newsletters did the Ronin Institute Communication Working Group publish this year? 5 (in 2019: 0) How many new Research Scholars joined the …
