Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
We Must Resist the Pressure to Be Interesting
Academic publishing creates incentives to simplify results, cull aberrations and focus on the exciting — often to the detriment of good research. Could more open access allows us to be good and boring?
Announcing the Winners of the Journal of Management 2014 Best Paper Award!
We’re pleased to congratulate Richard A. Posthuma of the University of El Paso and Michael A. Campion of Purdue University, who are […]
Nudge Isn’t New, But It Is Comfortable
It took decades for behavioral economics to break into the mainstream. Now, after just a few years of “bias,” “anchoring” and “nudge,” […]
The Handling of Student Suicides by Universities: A Case Study
According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, suicide is the second leading cause of death in college students. How can colleges help […]
Feds Make First Move to Enact Open Access Mandate
A year after the Office of Science and Technology Policy told the U.S. government to open up publicly funded research to the public for free, the first of 21 agencies covered has begun its program.
Sarah Harper on the Population Challenge for the 21st Century
Around the world, populations are growing older. But is that because people are living longer? Or could it be that there are fewer younger people to dilute the demographic pool? And what about aging itself — when exactly is ‘old’ these days?
Congratulations to the Winners of the Research Methods Division Awards!
We’re pleased to announce this year’s winners: 2014 Sage Publications/RMD Distinguished Career AwardPaul Spector 2014 Sage Publications/RMD/CARMA Early Career Achievement AwardNathan Podsakoff […]
Latest Iteration of America COMPETES on Senate Floor
A U.S. Senate bill to renew the landmark America COMPETES Act, and to contest with NSF funding authorization contained with the House’s FIRST Act, was introduced this week.
