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 […]
November 16, 2020
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The Coffin Cure: Why Vaccine Regulation Matters
Robert Dingwall cites a short story from 1957 which highlights why the development of a vaccine needs to always keep an eye on its safety, no matter what the pressures are for its immediate release.
A New, Technological ‘Normal’ in the Wake of COVID-19 and Online University
COVID-19 continues to shape the structure and direction of universities, but can this reframing offer a valid experience for their students and prove that the university experience today is still worthwhile? What can students, faculty, staff and university systems do online now that will ultimately benefit and expand upon what they do on campus later?
Should Doctors Be in Charge of Pandemic Policy?
or 30 years, social scientists have been trying to educate scientific elites in the value of taking ordinary people with them rather than dismissing skepticism about science-based actions. This work has just gone out the window, argues Robert Dingwall.
In Response to ‘COVID-19 Forces Universities to Refocus their Vision’
From the budding sense of a tight-knit community of fellow students and faculty, to radio silence, for a lot of students the rapid coronavirus-driven shift to a digital university experience doesn’t feel like enough. I am one of those students — a current graduate student who recently moved back home to America to finish up the last year of a dual-degree program.
Webinar Looks at How to Encourage COVID-19 Protective Behaviors
How can leaders encourage their community to adopt COVID-19 protective behaviors? This upcoming webinar will discuss promising strategies from the behavioral and […]
Common Identity, Humanity, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
“Wearing a mask is a sign of respect.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 12th 2020 In the first chapter of this […]
Prejudice, Discrimination, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
For the people that are now out of work because of the important and necessary containment policies, for instance the shutting down […]
Inequality and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Social distancing is a privilege. It means you live in a house large enough to practice it. Hand washing is a privilege […]
