Should female faculty get bonus points to correct for gender bias in student evaluations?
Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University
Now that most colleges and universities have completed their spring semesters, course instructors are opening up sealed manila envelopes, all...
Curriculum matters when it comes to kindergarten friendships
Lori E Meyer, University of Vermont and Michaelene M Ostrosky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friendship is often described as a major outcome of early...
The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s...
The extraordinary life of Whistler’s mother
Daniel E Sutherland, University of Arkansas
Many are familiar with James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother – officially titled Arrangement in Grey and Black,...
How Yersinia pestis evolved its ability to kill millions via pneumonic plague
Daniel Zimbler, Northwestern University and Wyndham Lathem, Northwestern University
The mere mention of the plague brings to mind the devastating “Black Death” pandemic that spread...
Forgiveness as the first step in reconciliation
Francis X Clooney, SJ, Harvard University
This week’s sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing and the sad aftermath of Dylann Roof’s racial...
The political work of the Confederate flag
Joseph Crespino, Emory University
The Confederate flag may soon be gone with the wind.
It is a remarkable reversal of fortunes for one of America’s most...
Are antiabortion activists winning?
Mary Ziegler, Florida State University
The Supreme Court seems poised to take on the abortion issue again, and with reason.
On June 29, by a five-to-four...
