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As Pandemic Warps Productivity, Early-Career Professors Envision Changes Evaluating Tenure
Higher Education Reform
February 16, 2022

As Pandemic Warps Productivity, Early-Career Professors Envision Changes Evaluating Tenure

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Engineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE
Announcements
January 20, 2022

Engineer and Psychologist Carlotta Arthur to Head DBASSE

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Has COVID Created a ‘Lost Generation’ of Early Career Researchers?
Career
December 15, 2021

Has COVID Created a ‘Lost Generation’ of Early Career Researchers?

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Ping, Read, Reply, Repeat: Research-Based Tips About Breaking Bad Email Habits
Communication
December 10, 2021

Ping, Read, Reply, Repeat: Research-Based Tips About Breaking Bad Email Habits

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Keeping an Eye on Who We Cite – and Who We Don’t

Keeping an Eye on Who We Cite – and Who We Don’t

“Make sure you’re not only citing white guys!” That was the unmistakable takeaway Wednesday as Deen Freelon discussed his research into citation inequities in the social sciences.

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Who Gets to Be Part of the Social Science Canon?

Who Gets to Be Part of the Social Science Canon?

Drawing on a quantitative study of sociologists in the 20th century, Nicole Holzhauser argues that not only the content of scientific work, but also social capital has historically played a significant role in allocating recognition and power.

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Riley to Retire from NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research

Riley to Retire from NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research

William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December

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If Music Be…

If Music Be…

My absence from these pages has been a produce of many forces. Paradoxically, pandemic-related lockdown has made access through the internet to […]

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Webinar Series: Building Successful Academic Pathway Programs – Watch the Full Series

Webinar Series: Building Successful Academic Pathway Programs – Watch the Full Series

This one-hour webinar, “Positioning Underrepresented Minority Students for College: Best Practices of Precollegiate Pathway Programs,” will kick of a series of three conversations with Curtis Byrd and Rihana Mason.

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A Guide to Career Paths in Behavioral Science

A Guide to Career Paths in Behavioral Science

Practicing behavioral scientist Preeti Kotamarthi finds it reassuring to know that this subject, which literally burst on the scene only a few years ago, has gained acceptance around the world, and students brave enough to study it now have a career to look forward to.

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A Primer on Academic Tenure (and Its Tenuous Future)

A Primer on Academic Tenure (and Its Tenuous Future)

In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors in the United States who have it.

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Paths from a PhD to the Private Sector

Paths from a PhD to the Private Sector

The impact of the pandemic on all sectors is only beginning to emerge and given the need for greater flexibility, adaptability and […]

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