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Ulterior motives may lurk behind new debit card for federal student loan borrowers

  • Written by Lewis Mandell, Professor Emeritus, Finance Department, School of Management, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
New debit cards being issued by the U.S. Department of Education could be used to track student spending.sakhorn/www.shutterstock.com

The U.S. Department of Education is about to pilot test a new debit card for students who get federal student loans.

For the federal government, it means less hassle and a way to get a glimpse at whether students are...

Read more: Ulterior motives may lurk behind new debit card for federal student loan borrowers

Trump's reference to Wounded Knee evokes the dark history of suppression of indigenous religions

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
Wounded Knee Memorial at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.AP Photo/Russell Contreras

President Trump evoked the Wounded Knee massacre in a recent tweet. He was reacting to an Instagram video that Sen. Elizabeth Warren posted on New Year’s Eve.

There’s been considerable criticism of the president’s inaccurate portrayal of Native American...

Read more: Trump's reference to Wounded Knee evokes the dark history of suppression of indigenous religions

Leaders always 'manufacture' crises, in politics and business

  • Written by Bert Spector, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Trump recently called the border a crisis during a televised address. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

“This is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”

That’s how President Donald Trump framed his demand for funds to build a “border wall” and end the partial government shutdown. That declaration...

Read more: Leaders always 'manufacture' crises, in politics and business

Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem

  • Written by Margaret Sobkowicz, Associate Professor of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell
An escalator with a pile of plastic bottles at the factory for processing and recycling. Alba_alioth/Shutterstock.com

Why has the world continued to increase consumption of plastic materials when at the same time, environmental and human health concerns over their use have grown?

One answer is they are immensely useful to humankind, and despite...

Read more: Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem

Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

  • Written by Deborah Y. Cohn, Associate Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
Gee, you shouldn't have.Happy Stock Photo/Shutterstock.com

What happens to the gifts you get? I’m not talking about the ones that you really adore. I mean the rest of them – the ones you can’t or don’t want to use, or even hate.

The problem doesn’t end when you’ve awkwardly thanked someone and thrown away the...

Read more: Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

  • Written by Carol Menassa, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
Someone's too hot and someone's too cold.Collage by The Conversation, combining images by Monika Wisniewska and Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

In any office, home or other shared space, there’s almost always someone who’s too cold, someone who’s too hot – and someone who doesn’t know what the fuss around...

Read more: Offices are too hot or too cold – is there a better way to control room temperature?

Guatemala in crisis after president bans corruption investigation into his government

  • Written by Rachel E. Bowen, Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Guatemalans overwhelmingly support the United Nations-backed corruption investigation known as CICIG. President Jimmy Morales is trying to ban prosecutors from the country.AP Photo/Moises Castillo

For months, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has been trying to stop a United Nations-backed anti-corruption investigation into his government.

Morales,...

Read more: Guatemala in crisis after president bans corruption investigation into his government

The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over

  • Written by Morten Wendelbo, Research Fellow, American University

With the U.S. federal government shutdown now the longest in history, it’s important to understand what a shutdown means for the health and safety of Americans.

The good news is that in the short run, the consequences are relatively few. But, as a researcher who studies natural disaster planning, I believe that Americans should be worried...

Read more: The shutdown will harm the health and safety of Americans, even after it's long over

How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

  • Written by Zahidul Alam, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Antibiotic-resistant germs can thrive in the presence of these drugs.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The situation is getting worse because of the shortage of new antibiotics. But what if we changed the way we aim to treat them, and trained our cells to kill these invaders instead of...

Read more: How to train the body's own cells to combat antibiotic resistance

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