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September 2, 2022
Creating Meaningful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
End the “Pipeline Mindset”Stuck in 1955, Engineering Education Needs a RevolutionSheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, Gary BertolineThe “pipeline” concept has long kept people out of the field of engineering. It’s time to… Read More -
December 13, 2024
A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge
What if you could create a clone of someone who has done you harm—and then kill it? When a skeptical journalist visits the cultish “kill therapy” retreat to profile its ambitious founder, she inadvertently opens the door to histories she had long endeavored to forget. -
January 16, 2024
The Question Isn’t Asset or Threat; It’s Oversight
As part of a research group studying generative AI with France’s Académie Nationale de Médecine, I was surprised by some clinicians’ technological determinism—their immediate assumption that this technology would, on its own,… Read More -
January 24, 2024
To Discourage Science Misconduct, Encourage “Delight of Discovery”
A top research center, the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, plans to retract or correct numerous scientific papers amid allegations that the authors falsified data by manipulating images. In Issues, the science… Read More -
September 2, 2022
Reimagining the Research University
Economic Prosperity and SecurityGreatness Thrust Upon Them: US Research Universities and the National InterestSteven W. McLaughlin, Bruce R. GuileThe United States needs universities—some of the most fiercely competitive and proudly autonomous global… Read More -
May 16, 2023
Episode 31: Race, Genetics, and a “Most Dangerous Myth”
The concept of distinct races came from European naturalists in the 1700s. It’s now recognized as a social construct, rather than a biological classification. Nonetheless, genetics researchers sometimes use race or ethnicity to… Read More -
Winter 2020
How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry
STEF at 75 America’s globally preeminent university research enterprise is constructed on two bedrock principles of self-governance. The first is autonomy: academic scientists should be left free to determine their own research… Read More -
April 18, 2023
Episode 29: To Solve the AI Problem, Rely on Policy, Not Technology
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, growing increasingly accessible and pervasive. Conversations about AI often focus on technical accomplishments rather than societal impacts, but leading scholar Kate Crawford has long drawn attention to the… Read More
