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Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities

  • Written by Jennie C. Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy and Director, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
Divestment rally at Harvard University, April 17, 2015.350.org, CC BY-NC-SA

As a new academic year begins after a summer of deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts and floods, many college students and faculty are debating whether and how to get involved in climate politics.

Climate advocacy has become well established on U.S. campuses over the past...

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Discovering the ancient origin of cystic fibrosis, the most common genetic disease in Caucasians

  • Written by Philip Farrell, Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The airways inside the human lung.Magic mine/Shutterstock.com

Imagine the thrill of discovery when more than 10 years of research on the origin of a common genetic disease, cystic fibrosis (CF), results in tracing it to a group of distinct but mysterious Europeans who lived about 5,000 years ago.

CF is the most common, potentially lethal, inherited...

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Teacher turnover is a problem – here's how to fix it

  • Written by Christopher Redding, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Teacher turnover causes significant disruptions to the school year, researchers say.Rob Marmion/www.shutterstock.com

Each school year, a good portion of parents find out that their child’s teacher is leaving for a job at another school or a different kind of job all together. An average of 16 percent of public school teachers change schools...

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Thousands of mental health professionals agree with Woodward and the New York Times op-ed author: Trump is dangerous

  • Written by Bandy X. Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University

Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” describes a “nervous breakdown of Trump’s presidency.” Earlier this year, Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” offered a similar portrayal.

Now, an op-ed in The New York Times by an anonymous “senior White House official” describes how deeply the troubles...

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What the 25th Amendment says about presidents who are 'unable' to serve

  • Written by Brian Kalt, Professor of Law and Harold Norris Faculty Scholar, Michigan State University
The 25th Amendment defines what happens if a president is 'unable' to discharge his duties.

A stunning, unsigned op-ed in The New York Times reported on Sept. 5 that members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet discussed removing him from power by using the 25th Amendment, but decided against it to avoid causing a “constitutional...

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Low-income neighborhoods would gain the most from green roofs in cities like Chicago

  • Written by Ashish Sharma, Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
The Morris Inn on the University of Notre Dame campus has had a green roof since 2013.Ashish Sharma, CC BY-SA

Heat waves aren’t just a source of discomfort. They’re the nation’s deadliest weather hazard, accounting for a fifth of all deaths caused by natural hazards in the U.S.

Most of the time, low-income people who live in cities...

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Designing greener streets starts with finding room for bicycles and trees

  • Written by Anne Lusk, Research Scientist, Harvard University
Street in Hangzhou, China, with trees separating a cycle track from road traffic and from the sidewalk.Xu Wen, CC BY-ND

City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small sidewalk pits, where, if constrained...

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El turista humanista: cuando viajar es más que un hobby

  • Written by Randy Malamud, Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
Como dijera Mark Twain, “Viajar es un ejercicio con consecuencias fatales para los prejuicios, la intolerancia y la estrechez de mente”.Jake Simonds-Malamud, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND

Cuando vencí la fobia a los aviones, decidí recuperar el tiempo perdido recorriendo el mundo todo lo que pude.

De manera que, en el curso de una...

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4 ways to defend democracy and protect every voter's ballot

  • Written by Douglas W. Jones, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa
How confident should voters be that their ballots will be counted accurately?AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the November midterm elections, it’s clear that U.S. voting is under electronic attack. Russian government hackers probed some states’ computer systems in the runup to the 2016 presidential...

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Politicians, lies and election legitimacy – it's an old story

  • Written by Gideon Cohn-Postar, Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
Lies can help a political campaign be successful.Shutterstock

If you lose an election to an opponent because an interest group runs ads based on false information against you, is the election result legitimate?

The 2016 presidential election featured a Russian troll farm that used fake social media accounts to try to turn voters against Hillary...

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