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How to score an internship during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Jon Schlesinger, Lecturer in the Schol of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Hiatt Career Center, Brandeis University
Forty percent of employers have moved to virtual internships.fizkes/Getty Images

Editor’s Note: Even though unemployment has reached a record high due to business closures and social distancing measures brought about by the new coronavirus, you can still snag an internship if you know how to adapt and get creative. That advice comes from Jon...

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BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usual

  • Written by David M. Uhlmann, Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program, University of Michigan
Pools of floating crude oil at the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, April 27, 2010.Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

The largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history began ten years ago, on April 20, 2010. A massive explosion killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and a blowout spewed more than 3 million barrels of oil...

Read more: BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usual

Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdowns

  • Written by Matt Kasson, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology and Mycology, West Virginia University
Campus shutdowns mean researchers must be classified as essential personnel to tend collections, like these fungus-colonized plants.Cameron Stauder, CC BY-ND

During World War II, a devoted group of botanists guarded the world’s oldest collection of plants over the 28-month-long siege of Leningrad. Nearly a dozen of them starved to death,...

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Renters still left out in the cold despite temporary coronavirus protection

  • Written by Kirk McClure, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Kansas
Protesters demanding a freeze on rents in Minneapolis. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Emergency relief for renters across America may protect them from the threat of eviction during the coronavirus crisis – but it won’t last for long.

The economic shutdown necessitated by COVID-19 has undermined the ability of...

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Hajj cancellation wouldn't be the first – plague, war and politics disrupted pilgrimages long before coronavirus

  • Written by Ken Chitwood, Lecturer, Concordia College New York | Journalist-fellow, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Concordia College New York
Muslim pilgrims wear masks while praying at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on Feb. 27, 2020.Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP via Getty Images

Saudi Arabia has urged Muslims to delay their plans for the hajj, amid speculation that the obligatory pilgrimage may be canceled this year due to the coronavirus.

Earlier this year, Saudi...

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Why farmers are dumping milk down the drain and letting produce rot in fields

  • Written by Elizabeth Ransom, Associate Professor of International Affairs & Senior Research Associate Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University
A Pennsylvania dairy farmer watches 5,500 gallons of milk swirl down the drain.MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Many Americans may be surprised and confused to see farmers dumping milk down the drain or letting vegetables rot in their fields.

Why would they be destroying food at a time when grocery stores and food pantries struggle to...

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Why there isn’t a one-size-fits-all plan for states to reopen their economies

  • Written by Hilary Godwin, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington
California is working with Oregon and Washington on coordinated plans for phasing in the reopening of restaurants, stores and other parts of their economies in a way that can keep the coronavirus pandemic at bay.Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Editor’s Note: How and when states reopen their economies will look different from one state to the next...

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Turkey releasing murderers – but not political opponents – from prison amid coronavirus pandemic

  • Written by Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Released prisoners sit in a bus outside Ankara, Turkey -- while government critics remain behind bars due to Turkey's sweeping terror laws.AP

Turkey has begun to release about 90,000 prison inmates, half of them temporarily and the other half permanently, to prevent COVID-19’s spread and to ease overcrowding.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...

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A smart second skin gets all the power it needs from sweat

  • Written by Wei Gao, Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Skin is the largest organ of the human body. It conveys a lot of information, including temperature, pressure, pleasure and pain. Electronic skin (e-skin) mimics the properties of biological skin. Recently developed e-skins are capable of wirelessly monitoring...

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Cracks in COVID-19 treatment reveal need to bolster primary care

  • Written by Tuba Agartan, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Providence College
Throughout the U.S., hospitals are short on supplies. At UNLV Medicine (University of Nevada at Las Vegas), the staff is running out of COVID-19 test kits. Getty Images / Ethan Miller

Every day the COVID-19 crisis reveals just how unprepared the U.S. health care system was.

But it’s not only the shortage of masks, tests and ventilators, nor...

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