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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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
