Notre Dame, Indiana - Corporate social responsibility, or CSR - a name for the actions companies take to advance social good, above and beyond that which is required by law - continues to draw interest from practitioners and academics alike. One question that practitioners have is whether CSR impacts their firm’s performance.

Camp Pendleton, California - Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton staff members celebrated the 145th birthday of the U.S. Navy Medical Corps with a cake-cutting ceremony March 3.

Baltimore, Maryland - A new interdisciplinary science team, led by experts from Yale and Johns Hopkins universities and funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will try to figure how power generation trends, climate change and public policy interact to affect air quality. A key goal of this project is to trace how the resulting changes in air pollution may affect the health of people who live and work in the mid-Atlantic area.

Washington, DC - A federal grand jury in the Middle District of North Carolina returned an indictment March 1 charging a Greensboro, North Carolina couple, who operated an online sales business with tax fraud as well as bank and wire fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina. The defendants were arrested earlier today and had their initial court appearances this afternoon.

Washington, DC - President Barack Obama: "Nancy Reagan once wrote that nothing could prepare you for living in the White House. She was right, of course. But we had a head start, because we were fortunate to benefit from her proud example, and her warm and generous advice.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of State is proud to announce the launch of Global Partnerships Week 2016 (GPW) which runs from March 7–13, and celebrates the critical role public-private partnerships (P3s) play in promoting diplomacy and development around the world. The week is an effort led by the Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships, in collaboration with the U.S. Global Development Lab at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Concordia, and the PeaceTech Lab at the U.S. Institute of Peace.