By Destenie Nock, Alex Hills Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Energy is meant to improve people’s lives. Often cost prevents residents from making the most of that opportunity, so they cut back on energy use to be able to pay the bills.
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By Jason Wollschleger, Professor of Sociology, Whitworth University
More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s – and there have been attacks in recent years, too.
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By Evan Clarkson, Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology, Utah Valley University
A psychologist explains why the dark humor around Mangione’s case isn’t evidence of nihilism but of what happens when demands for moral seriousness stop feeling credible.
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Two new executive orders take aim at aspects of birthright citizenship the high court did not address in its June 2026 ruling.
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By Michele Patterson Ford, Lecturer in Psychology, Dickinson College
When a person’s story about a traumatic event seems fuzzy, they may be experiencing the nuances of how their brain processes trauma.
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By Syra S. Madad, Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Nahid Bhadelia, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Boston University
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Erica Schwartz, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 5, 2026, is only the second CDC director to face Senate confirmation. Congress adopted the process for the agency after the COVID-19 pandemic to bring more scrutiny to one of the country’s most consequential public health jobs, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.…
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By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
The number of Americans who file for bankruptcy is growing. More than 500,000 people took this step in 2025, nearly 50% more than in 2022. And the numbers have kept on climbing, with a 12% jump in June 2026 from a year earlier as many consumers struggled to pay their bills.
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By Jerome A. Graham, Assistant Professor of K-12 Educational Administration, Michigan State University
Su Yon Choi, Assistant Professor of School Leaders, Florida Atlantic University
Yi-Chih Chiang, Assistant Professor of P-12 Educational Administration, Idaho State University
Research on absenteeism often focuses on factors like unreliable transportation, overlooking what schools themselves can do to help kids maintain a steady attendance record.
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By Sedzani Musundwa, Associate professor, University of South Africa
For the past few decades, universities, employers and professional bodies globally have invested in mentoring programmes, scholarships and student support initiatives to diversify careers such as professional accounting. The assumption has been that if talented students have help to overcome barriers, representation will improve.
For many socioeconomically marginalised people, going to university is seen as the key to a better life. Accounting has been one of the professions that promises stable jobs, financial security and upward social mobility. But while more students are getting…
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By Markus Engstler, Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Daniel Masiga, Head of Global Health Thematic Research Programme, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Tsetse flies transmit some of Africa’s most persistent parasitic diseases. They have affected human health, livestock production and rural development for generations, across a region spanning millions of square kilometres in 37 sub-Saharan countries.
Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is caused by two species of single-celled parasites. Others infect wild and domestic animals,…
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