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 […]
Julia O’Connell Davidson on the Hope and the Hypocrisy of Addressing ‘Modern Slavery’
An interview with Sociologist Julia O’Connell Davidson, who has long examined the various components of exploitation and violence that often get lumped into the catch-all term of outrage, ‘modern slavery.’
Social Inequality Examined Via Soda Consumption Among Youth
P. Christopher Palmedo, a clinical professor of community health and social sciences at the City University of New York, discusses “Exploring Countermarketing Messages to Reduce Youth Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in The Bronx, NY,” which he, Samantha Flores, Kalya Castillo, Moria Byrne-Zaaloff and Kelly Moltzen saw published in Social Marketing Quarterly.
An Introvert’s Guide to Academic Networking and Hybrid Events
As academic conferences and events re-emerge after a period of COVID-19 induced absence, Mark Carrigan, takes stock of the new post-pandemic world of academic meetings and provides four strategies for how academics can productively navigate and build networks in a world of hybrid interactions.
CNSTAT Report Emphasizes the Need for a National Data Infrastructure
In the recent report, “Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing Information for the Common Good,” by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the importance of national data infrastructure is emphasized.
Taking Our Work to the Street
This is the final blog in this three-part account of a project which took voices gathered through spatially-led video interviews in spring 2022, and developed them into public street theatre with performers and artists.
Batja Mesquita on Culture and Emotion
Batja Mesquita, a social psychologist at Belgium’s University of Leuven where she is director of the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, theorizes that what many would consider universal emotions – say anger or maternal love – are actually products of culture.
Culturally Adapting Therapy May Provide Insights, But Further Research Needed
How should therapists adapt their approaches for people of different cultures, including for racial and ethnic minority groups?
Report Proposes Post-Bacc Programs to Increase Diversity in Academia
In the report “Post-Baccalaureate Bridge Programs: An Underutilized Tool for Strengthening Faculty Diversity,” authored by Senior Advisor Eugene Tobin, Senior Researcher Daniel Rossman, Senior Analyst Christy McDaniel, Vice President of Educational Transformation Martin Kurzweil and Managing Director Catherine Bond Hill, the underrepresentation of diversity in academia and mechanisms to increase it are discussed.
