By Remy Dou, Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami
STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids’ homes.
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By Delphine Farmer, Professor of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Mj Riches, Postdoctoral Researcher studying Plant-Atmosphere Interactions, Colorado State University
Rose Rossell, Ph.D. Student in Plant and Atmospheric Chemistry, Colorado State University
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
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By Jerrid Kruse, Professor of Science Education, Drake University
During my years teaching science in middle school, high school and college, some of my students have resisted teaching that educators call higher-order thinking. This includes analysis, creative and critical thinking, and problem-solving.
For example, when I asked them to draw conclusions from data or generate a process for testing…
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By Alexandra Killewald, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Nino Cricco, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Harvard University
Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.
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By Jay L. Zagorsky, Associate Professor Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Mortgage fraud is back in the news. Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, is being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements when applying for a mortgage. Members of Donald…
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By Jason Reed, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
The Federal Reserve is in a nearly impossible spot right now.
Markets are expecting a quarter-point interest rate cut to a range of 4% to 4.25% when the Fed policy-setting committee concludes its latest meeting on Sept. 17, 2025. After all, the slowdown…
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By Kerry Whigham, Associate Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict, something Ukraine is now weighing.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Sussan Ley will give her first major economic speech as leader to call for Australians to move “off welfare and into self-reliance”
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Only a few months into her leadership, Sussan Ley is facing an extraordinary insurgency from Liberal frontbenchers.
Last week she had to sack Jacinta Price for refusing to endorse her leadership.
Now she is being warned, bluntly, that if the Liberals don’t drop the commitment to net zero by 2050 – or at least water it down – there will be walkouts by frontbenchers.
Andrew Hastie, the opposition’s home affairs spokesman, told the ABC on Monday if Ley stuck with net zero “that leaves me without a job”.
“I’ve nailed my colours to the mast. If I go out…
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By Jonathan L. Zecher, Associate Professor, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
Some have even called Kirk a patron saint of MAGA. Stories of his status as a ‘martyr’ are uniting America’s Christian right.
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