The new building at U of T Mississauga was unofficially opened last year. The name Maanjiwe nendamowinan, chosen in collaboration with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, means a "gathering of minds" (photo by Drew Lesiuczok)

Welcome to the August 23, 2019 installment of Research Roundup, a recurring snapshot of recent studies published by scientists at the Broad Institute and their collaborators.

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2019 – Today, API issued the following statement on China’s announcement of retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, including American crude oil and several other petroleum products.

The latest episode of the “She Roars” podcast features Maribel Hernandez Rivera, a 2010 graduate alumna, reflecting on her childhood experience as an undocumented immigrant and now a champion of immigrant rights. She works as district director for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after a previous position in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Moving to a new venue this year to accommodate the increasing attendance, TrellisWare hosted TSM partners from various agencies and companies throughout the industry to collaborate on the expanding TSM ecosystem.

EAGLE pASS, Texas – Within the past two weeks, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector Foreign Operations Branch worked with the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the government of Mexico to coordinate the repatriation of two men wanted by Mexican authorities on kidnapping and homicide charges.

Lauren Wilk, Vice President for Policy at the Aluminum Association, issued the following statement following today’s announcement that the Canadian government will add certain aluminum products to its Import Control List (ICL), a monitoring system for imports entering the country. 

LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents and Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers participated in Texas A&M International’s (TAMIU) Fall International Student Orientation in Laredo, Texas.

Following a national search, State Superintendent of Education John White today announced Ernest E. Garrett III will serve as the new Superintendent of the Louisiana Special School District (SSD), guiding the implementation of the SSD's new three-year strategic plan and overseeing all operations of its special schools and programs. Garrett will take the helm Sept.3.

Pepin County and the UniverCity Year program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invite community members to attend an information session and celebration on August 28 to learn more about the three-year partnership between UniverCity Year and Pepin County, which will seek to find practical solutions to economic development and environmental sustainability challenges in Pepin County.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s evGrand Prix racing series, a competition built around education, is revving up for the fall season.

Houston, TX -- On Thursday, August 29 at 12:45pm, a crowd of local environmental and Indigenous activists will rally outside an appearance by BP America chairman and president Susan Dio to call on her to pledge that BP will not pursue drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.