By Kayla Stajkovic, Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis
Alex Stajkovic, Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The type of life and professional experience a police chief has can influence how their departments react to protests, new research finds.
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By Howard Manly, Race + Equity Editor, The Conversation US
What Trump knew about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election remains an open question despite the nearly two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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By Jordi Calvet-Bademunt, Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Jacob Mchangama, Research Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image creation tool saw similar issues. This led some commentators to complain that AI had gone…
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By Liz Bucar, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University
In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than enduring a hardship. But what does patience look like? And when should we not exercise patience?
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By Mark Robert Rank, Professor of Social Welfare, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
With low-scoring games and a preponderance of deflected shots, randomness is much more likely to color NHL teams’ records than those of squads in the other four major US pro sports leagues.
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By John Cooley, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Chris Simon, Senior Research Scientist of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
In the wake of North America’s recent solar eclipse, another historic natural event is on the horizon. From late April through June 2024, the largest brood of 13-year cicadas, known as Brood XIX, will co-emerge with a midwestern brood of 17-year cicadas, Brood XIII.
This event will affect 17 states, from Maryland west to Iowa and south into Arkansas, Alabama and northern Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. A co-emergence like this of two specific broods with different life cycles happens…
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By Fern R. Hauck, Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia
Rates of sudden unexpected infant deaths have not gone down significantly over the last 20 years, and in some racial groups the numbers are rising.
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By Robert Samuels, Continuing Lecturer in Writing, University of California, Santa Barbara
A recent federal study on graduation rates for American colleges and universities shows that 40% of all students did not earn a degree or credential within eight years of leaving high school. The graduation rate is even lower for low-income students.
Among students from families with income levels of US$115,000 or more, 66% who enrolled in higher education earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from 2009 through 2021. However, among students from families who made less than $35,000, 26% earned a bachelor’s…
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By Lynn Greenky, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
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By Peter Johnston, Climate Scientist and Researcher, University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
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