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Trustees' handling of Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure application shows how university boards often fail the accountability test

  • Written by Felecia Commodore, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations & Leadership, Old Dominion University
imageDemonstrators gather June 25, 2021, on University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., to demand that the university offer tenure to award-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. AP Photo/Jonathan Drew

University boards of trustees hold considerable power over the institutions they govern, but get attention only when...

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5 children's books that teach valuable engineering lessons

  • Written by Michelle Forsythe, Assistant Professor of STEM Education, Texas State University
imageEngineering lessons can be found in many books kids already have at home or their local library. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer...

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Skip the fireworks this record-dry 4th of July, over 150 wildfire scientists urge the US West

  • Written by Philip Higuera, Professor of Fire Ecology and Paleoecology, The University of Montana
imageIn heat and drought like the western U.S. and Canada are experiencing in 2021, all it takes is a spark to start a wildfire.Jim Watson/Getty Images

The heat wave hitting the northwestern U.S. and Canada has been shattering records, with temperatures 30 degrees Fahrenheit or more above normal. With drought already gripping the West, the intense heat...

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US intelligence report on UFOs: No aliens, but government transparency and desire for better data might bring science to the UFO world

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageThe new government report describes 144 sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena.U.S. Navy

On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena – UAPs – in part to avoid the...

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An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse

  • Written by Robin R. Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Vice-President Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (nfp), Texas A&M University
imageA drone flies above search and rescue personnel at the site of the Champlain Towers South Condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida.AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building collapses, two mine disasters and an earthquake as director of the Center for Robot-Assisted...

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Critical race theory: What it is and what it isn't

  • Written by David Miguel Gray, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis
imagePresident Lyndon Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which aimed to do away with racial discrimination in the law. But discrimination persisted.AP file photo

U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial essentialism that critical race theory teaches...

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China's 'one-child policy' left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age, with no one to take care of them

  • Written by Lihong Shi, Associate Professor of Anthropology , Case Western Reserve University
imageFor four decades, the Chinese government has restricted family size.Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation.

That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental grief I’ve...

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To make agriculture more climate-friendly, carbon farming needs clear rules

  • Written by Laura van der Pol, Ph.D Student in Ecology, Colorado State University
imageSoybeans sprout on an Illinois farm through corn stubble left on an unplowed field from the previous season – an example of no-till farming.Paige Buck, USDA/Flickr, CC BY

As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon...

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The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads

  • Written by Matt Williams, Religion & Ethics Editor
imagePondering the ethical considerations? iStock / Getty Images Plus

The U.S. is edging closer by the day to seeing half of its population fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Although vaccination rates differs from state to state, the national figure currently stands at 46.4%. That goes up to 57.2% when looking solely at the adult population.

Vaccines...

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When a Black boxing champion beat the 'Great White Hope,' all hell broke loose

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
imageBlack heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, right, beat James Jeffries in 1910, sparking racial violence.George Haley, San Francisco Call, via University of California, Riverside, via Library of Congress

An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his title against a white boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It was billed as...

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  14. College can still be rigorous without a lot of homework
  15. Controversy over Communion in the Catholic Church goes back some 2,000 years
  16. How colonialism's legacy makes it harder for countries to escape poverty and fossil fuels today
  17. Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact
  18. Free-speech ruling won't help declining civil discourse
  19. What are tax havens? The answer explains why the G-7 effort to end them is unlikely to succeed
  20. What today's GOP demonstrates about the dangers of partisan conformity
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  22. Closures of Black K-12 schools across the nation threaten neighborhood stability
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  24. Research that shines light on how cells recover from threats may lead to new insights into Alzheimer's and ALS
  25. Schools must act carefully on students' off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules
  26. Why it's such a big deal that the NFL's Carl Nassib came out as gay
  27. Conversion therapy is discredited and increases risk of suicide -- yet fewer than half of US states have bans in place
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  31. Why choosing the next dalai lama will be a religious – as well as a political – issue
  32. How the billions MacKenzie Scott is giving to colleges attended by students of color will help everyone in America
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  36. Despite outrage, new state voting laws don't spell democracy's end – but there are some threats
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  42. How Vladimir Putin uses natural gas to exert Russian influence and punish his enemies
  43. Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?
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  45. What is the religious exemption to Title IX and what's at stake in LGBTQ students' legal challenge
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