By Ismar Volić, Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
Andy Schultz, Professor of Mathematics, Wellesley College
David McCune, Professor of Mathematics, William Jewel College
Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.
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By Stephen Mattingly, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan’s bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest train in Europe goes almost 200 mph (320 kph). Yet high-speed…
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By José Lemos, Professor of Oral Biology, University of Florida
Jacqueline Abranches, Associate Professor of Oral Biology, University of Florida
Bacteria living in your mouth get to work as soon as you take your first bite or sip of something sweet. Consuming your sugar more strategically can help keep cavities at bay.
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By Ramesh Agarwal, Professor of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects are the same.
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By Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Louisville
Hanqing "Chevy" Fang, Associate Professor of Business and Information Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Jim Chrisman, Professor of Management, Mississippi State University
My team analyzed decades of research on family businesses to find out their secret sauce. Three key differences help them keep an edge over competitors.
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By Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers University
House lawmakers released damning correspondence between economist Larry Summers and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Nov. 12, 2025. The exchanges, which were among more than 20,000 newly released public documents, documented how Summers – a former U.S. Treasury…
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By Shannon Pickett, Professor of Psychology and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Purdue University
Students and their families can’t plan for everything, or know with absolute certainty what the best decision is. But they can be better informed about options.
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By Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.
Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University has studied some of these ancient species by examining the tracks and traces they left during the Pleistocene…
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By Marc Wegerif, Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Pretoria
Land tenure is the relationship, defined in law and customs, that people as individuals or groups have with land. It involves a bundle of rights to land, such as the right to use, sell, or bequeath land. Secure tenure is crucial for people to have secure homes, for food production, and for the economy. For many it is also central to their identity and culture.
While there is broad agreement on the importance of…
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By Lieketseng Ned, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Marguerite Schneider, Emeritus Associate Professor, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town
South Africa needs to take pragmatic steps to plug the shortcomings in the data that’s collected on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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