By Tom Reinsfelder, Distinguished Librarian, Penn State
A new database includes more than 850 dissertations and theses, spanning everything from baseball slang and cigarette smoking to postage stamps and ballpark organs.
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By Sumit Mandal, Associate Professor of Textile Science, Oklahoma State University
The risk to firefighters isn’t just from breathing wildfire smoke – it’s also in the chemicals that get on their clothes and filter through to their skin.
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By Beverly Kingston, Director and Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado Boulder
Clara Hill, Research Associate in Human Development, Washington State University
Honest conversations between parents and teens can help incoming college students make safer choices and be more aware of risks.
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By Zac Taylor, Assistant Professor of Urban Development Management, Delft University of Technology
Florida’s current approach to insurance is forcing those who can least afford it to bear the cost of the climate crisis. But different approaches are available.
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By Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
In 1976, fans could score a ticket to the MLB All-Star Game for $6. In 2026, tickets start at over $200.
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By Angela J. Narayan, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Denver
Observing how grown-ups operate provides children with information on how they can shape their worlds to get what they want and avoid what they don’t want.
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By Achim Zeileis, Professor of Statistics, University of Innsbruck
In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use divination via tea leaves, or hope for Paul the Octopus to tell us what would happen.
But modern data science can provide a better alternative. As part of a team of statisticians, I helped train a machine learning algorithm to predict the most likely course of the tournament.
Probabilistic forecasts and loaded…
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By Robert Kubinec, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
Alexis Montambault-Trudelle, Postdoctoral Fellow in International Studies, Université Laval
Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict.
Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in response to the initial U.S. and Israeli action in late February, Saudi Arabia has since reportedly initiated more direct action. Indeed, in May, speculation mounted that the kingdom had…
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By Melissa Scanlan, Professor and Director of the Center for Water Policy, School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Will Matuska, Water Policy and Science Communications Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Both legally and practically speaking, getting to the water’s edge isn’t as straightforward as it might seem – or as many people might like.
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By Jennifer Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Volodymyr Zelensky recently suggested that the war in Ukraine was beginning to turn in his country’s favour. The Ukrainian president insisted that Russia was “losing the initiative each day”.
These comments came days after Zelensky wrote an open…
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