By Dipesh Navsaria, Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lori DiPrete Brown, Distinguished Teaching Faculty of Civil Society & Community Studies, Director of Global Health and Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Soyeon Shim, Dean of the School of Human Ecology, Professor of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Involving families, educators, engineers, designers and policymakers in AI development can help ensure the technology does more good than harm.
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By Daniel Milowski, Adjunct Professor of History, Arizona State University
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.
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By Rotem Rozental, Lecturer in Critical Studies, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
Armed with rolls of film, some young people are opting out of their algorithmic feeds in favor of experiencing life in ways that feel more deliberate, personal and tangible.
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By Bridget K. Daleiden, Instructor in educational psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
If students choose to listen to music while studying, they should consider music that is less distracting – and save high-energy playlists for when they don’t need to focus.
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By Allison M. Prasch, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Debates over what visitors will see and experience in the nation’s capital city have taken center stage as Americans prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
For President Donald J. Trump, the event inspired a massive redevelopment project. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has argued that Washington,…
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By Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.
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By D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
Dallin Alldredge, Assistant Professor of Finance, Florida International University
Lee Biggerstaff, Assistant Professor of Finance, Miami University
Corporate layoffs cause confusion about a business’s future, but there’s a way for investors and employees alike to see if downsizing could lead to profitability.
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By Philip Broadbent, Wellcome Multimorbidity PhD Fellow & Public Health Registrar, University of Glasgow
New data shows obesity rising fastest among the young and the poor, while it’s mainly the better off who are seeing the benefit of weight-loss drugs.
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By Tom Cutterham, Associate Professor of United States History, University of Birmingham
The American revolution was not a straightforward contest between colonists and mother country, despite what the Declaration of Independence said about dissolving the bonds between one people and another. There were, of course, loyalists in America who refused to join the rebel cause. And in Britain, there were many who took the side of the revolution.
Just like in the colonies themselves, people’s choice of allegiance was sometimes a matter of self-interest. Merchants and manufacturers, whose…
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By Dominic O'Key, Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy marks the passing of her late mother by fathoming her on the page for the first time. “I wrote versions of her in my books”, Roy explains, “but I never wrote her.”
Doing so is difficult, even painful for Roy because of who her mother was and how she mothered. To her students, Mrs Roy was a committed headmistress who left a legacy of learning. To her country, Mary Roy was a tireless advocate for Syrian Christians, whose landmark legal case in India’s supreme…
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