Tag: Volunteering
Citizen scientists are filling research gaps created by the pandemic
Theresa Crimmins, University of Arizona; Erin Posthumus, University of Arizona, and Kathleen Prudic, University of Arizona
The rapid spread...
People take better care of public places when they feel like...
Suzanne Shu, Cornell University
Takeaways
· People can feel “psychological ownership,” a sense of personal attachment, even for parks and other public places.
· These feelings lead...
18 million US children are at risk of hunger: How is...
Heather Eicher-Miller, Purdue University; David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida; Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton, and Kecia Johnson, Mississippi State University
Editor’s note: The...
Do people become more selfless as they age?
Ulrich Mayr, University of Oregon
Looking for something to binge-watch while you’re hunkering down at home?
Consider checking out the popular TV show “The Good Place.”...
How college towns could benefit more from throngs of student volunteers
Jennifer A. Jones, University of Florida
Millions of college students volunteer at soup kitchens, animal shelters and other nonprofits near where they go to school....
How to get more Americans to volunteer
Rebecca Nesbit, University of Georgia and Robert Christensen, Brigham Young University
Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century Frenchman fascinated by U.S. life, praised what he saw...
3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote...
Asa Oxner Myers, University of South Florida
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.
We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of...
Is it time for a Cyber Peace Corps?
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
Hackers around the world are attacking targets as diverse as North Dakota’s state government, the Ukrainian postal service and a hospital...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
