Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation and Human Services, University of North Dakota When it comes to mental health at school, typically the focus is on helping students, especially as they emerge from the pandemic with heightened levels of anxiety,…
Meghan E. Rebuli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill If you ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they’ll often tell you with…
Joshua S. Fu, University of Tennessee When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize. Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers and…
Brian Geiss, Colorado State University President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 is especially concerning because of his age. At 74 years old, Trump is solidly within an age…
Michael Petroni, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry The pandemic is putting America’s air pollution standards to the test as the COVID-19 death toll rises. The U.S.…
Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University – Newark It’s hard to process the news of the president’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis without having recourse to some kind of mythological system, some larger frame of reference.…
Gordon Adams, American University School of International Service If President Donald Trump is too sick to perform his duties, it’s not clear what might happen to the country’s national security and foreign…
Jennifer Spindel, University of New Hampshire; Matt Motta, Oklahoma State University, and Robert Ralston, University of Minnesota White nationalist groups, who make up some of the most serious terror threats in the…
Robert M. Adelman, University at Buffalo and Lesley Reid, University of Alabama The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Undocumented immigration does not increase the…
David Webber, University of Missouri-Columbia Amid all the attention on former President Barack Obama’s new book, what may not have shown up in the reviews is mention of a two-page summary that,…
Brian Glyn Williams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth One common claim by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has been that his administration beat IS, or what’s formally known as the Islamic State terrorist…