Ashwin Gulati ’90 dismantles the myths, ambitions, and raw realities of a startup culture where 97% of ventures fail. So why do entrepreneurs keep lining up? Why do VCs keep funding them? And what isn’t working? In this…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/unspoken-truths-entrepreneurial-trenchesDebak Das, assistant professor in peace and security at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver, will speak to the proliferation of nuclear delivery systems, why the global nucle…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/global-nuclear-order-and-proliferation-delivery-systemsIn an interview format with two CMC students, Nadine Strossen, professor emerita at NYU School of Law and Senior Fellow at FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), will address pressing questions abou…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/free-speech-rights-and-wrongs-current-controversiesThe highly anticipated opening of CMC’s Robert Day Sciences Center (RDSC) for the 2025-26 academic year officially ushers in a new era of innovative science education on campus. Or as Heather Antecol, who has helped fac…
Enforcement of International Human Rights Law (IHRL) is under siege—due to weakened institutional capacity, authoritarian resistance, threats to civil society, and shrinking political will. Core values and norms of just…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/its-not-law-its-practice-strategies-human-rights-protection-and-resilienceThe Trump Administration is upending America's post-war role in leading and maintaining a rules-based global trading system. US trade policy is being designed to extract concessions from partners, reduce the trade defic…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/recalibrating-global-trading-systemWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was mean…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/empire-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-sam-altmans-openaiA prolific researcher with more than 100 publications to his name, Professor Sam Nelson is well-regarded worldwide for his scholarship in mathematics, offering a novel approach to knot theory, expertise in algebraic top…
Hussein Banai, associate professor of international studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, will chart the dramatic rise and gradual unraveling of Iran’s regional influence between 2005 and 2025, a period marked by b…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/irans-rise-and-retreat-shadow-american-missteps