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 […]
Nico Calavita’s Incremental Advance to Scholarly Activism
Nico Calavita is, by his own admission, a sort of accidental activist scholar. Now, after a career in which he’s become a recognized expert on the tools and provision of affordable housing, Calavita has been honored with the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award, sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association and SAGE Publishing.
Senate Appropriators Set Aside $7.5B for NSF
In a hearing before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on science spending Tuesday, the National Science Foundation’s budget was listed as $7.51 billion — $46 million above the same figure for the current fiscal year, but lower than what President Obama had asked for.
New Podcast: Tomika Greer on Using HRD to Support Repatriates
In the latest podcast from Human Resource Development Review, Tomika Greer of University of Houston discusses the article she co-authored with Alexandra Stiles […]
How Does Job Displacement Impact Heart Health?
[We’re pleased to welcome Paul Devereux of University College Dublin. Paul recently published an article in ILR Review entitled “Losing Heart? The […]
Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering Fields?
To say that women are underrepresented in science and engineering fields is an understatement. It is also an oversimplification, because representation of […]
Will Habitat III Really Update the Urban Agenda?
In this interview, David Satterthwaite, editor of the journal ‘Environment & Urbanization,’ discusses the state of the ‘new’ urban agenda and what we can expect from the upcoming global conference on sustainable urban development.
Grappa: A Radical Success Story
There was a time not too long ago when grappa, the popular Italian grape-based brandy, was considered a poor man’s drink. During […]
Major Study Asks, What Academic Subject Pays Best?
A new survey in England examines the career outcomes of recent university leavers. For maximum pay, it helps to be a student of economics — and to be male.
