Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Trump Administration Institutionalizing University Funding Obstacles
Several prominent universities, including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, made headlines in 2025 in a dizzying back-and-forth with the federal […]
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences Elects 74 New Fellows
Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences has named 74 social scientists as fellows of the academy for the spring 2026 cohort. Fellows are […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s Promises to Academe Spotlights Importance of Screening
Yale University, Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles are among the schools that have recently placed professors on leave, […]
Creator of ICE Tracker Receives Activist-Scholar Award
The creator of an interactive ICE Detention Tracker will receive the 2026 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award co-sponsored by Sage and […]
Can Accounting Impact Employee Wellbeing?
Although many may think of accounting as something abstract that happens only in spreadsheets, a new study shows that accounting can impact […]
Measuring What Matters: Why Academic Pathways Need Shared Evidence, Not Just Good Intentions
Across higher education, academic pathway programs play a critical role in widening access to degrees, research careers, and faculty positions for students who have […]
Should We Expect AI to ‘Do’ Science?
Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers and politicians are increasingly using AI models trained […]
‘Tino’ Cuéllar Named Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar, a former justice of the Supreme Court of California and currently the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International […]
