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 […]
A new report from the Pew Research Center explores how and why Americans listen to podcasts, and how podcasting affects their news consumption specifically.
The Great Mask Debate is limping towards closure. While there is no single conclusive piece of evidence, the best research points towards […]
Few topics in education have dominated the news over the past few years as much as efforts to ban critical race theory from the nation’s schools. The topic is so pervasive that researchers at the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program have created a new database to track attempts by local and state government to outlaw the teaching of the theory, which holds, among other things, that racism is not just expressed on an individual level, but rather is deeply embedded in the nation’s laws and policies. The Conversation asked Taifha Natalee Alexander, director and supervisor of the database, about the overarching purpose of the database and what it has shown thus far.
What is missing in current research and practice is an understanding of megaprojects as a complete production system—from planning through design, manufacturing, and
construction, to integration and handover to operations. Thinking about megaprojects as
production systems may help us understand how the different dimensions—the six themes
identified in our research—work together to achieve a project’s goals and deliver valuable
outcomes.
A study published this month, “How Academic Freedom Is Monitored,” aims to assist STOA in the creation of its monitoring platform. The study, authored by Gergely Kováts and Zoltán Rónay of the European Parliamentary Research Service, reviews the existing approaches used to monitor academic freedom and presents new policy options.
Artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model could make completing college coursework as simple as asking a computer questions and getting answers at the click of a button (to the prospective horror of some professors). In fact, 61 percent of college students say using AI tools will become the new normal, but does that new normal involve students learning or machines learning?
Loet Leydesdorff, a sociologist and communications scholar who found academic fame for his work in developing scientometrics and the “triple helix” model of innovation, has died.
Although it’s purely aspirational at best, the Biden administration is seeking an 18.6 percent increase in the budget for the National Science Foundation, the United States’ largest funder of academic social science research.