5 ways the COVID-19 pandemic could affect your college application
Whitney Soule, Bowdoin College
The coronavirus pandemic has intensified college application anxiety. I make this observation as an admissions dean who, as of late, has...
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the...
Few US students ever repeat a grade but that could change due to COVID-19
Pamela Davis-Kean, University of Michigan
With in-person instruction becoming the exception rather than the norm, 54% of parents with school-age children expressed concern that their...
What a smoky bar can teach us about the ‘6-foot rule’ during the COVID-19...
Byron Erath, Clarkson University; Andrea Ferro, Clarkson University; Goodarz Ahmadi, Clarkson University, and Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University
When people envision social distancing, they typically think...
‘Quarantine envy’ could finally wake people up to the deep inequalities that pervade American...
Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St Louis
In recent months, mental health experts have been drawing attention to what they’ve dubbed “quarantine envy.”
Many people, they...
Does 4 years of college make students more liberal?
Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University and Alyssa N. Rockenbach, North Carolina State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic...
How the Civil War drove medical innovation – and the pandemic could, too
Jeffrey Clemens, University of California San Diego
The current COVID-19 pandemic, the largest public health crisis in a century, threatens the health of people across...
Steroids cut COVID-19 death rates, but not for everyone – here’s who benefits and...
Bryan McVerry, University of Pittsburgh
New studies show that treating critically ill COVID-19 patients with inexpensive steroids can cut their risk of dying from the...
