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Football participation among high schoolers continues to decline, as concern about brain injury increases. Could training without helmets make a difference?
Interruptions are inevitable – but how they happen matters.
The upcoming Supreme Court session will address notable cases about the rights of different groups. The cases go to the heart of how U.S. laws protect both individual and group rights.
Mahatma Gandhi is an iconic figure for the world. Richard Barlett Gregg helped introduce him to Americans.
As the album celebrates its 50th anniversary, an expert in sound recording details how the band deployed stereo and synthesizers to put a unique artistic stamp on this iconic album.
There’s been a reversal of power between religious and secular sides of American culture. The Supreme Court is now at the center of that shift.
Bioengineers who are trying to grow replacement human tissues and organs are at the forefront of biomedicine. But you may be surprised by some of the materials they are using for this endeavor.
Citizens voting directly on policy seems like a good idea. But that led to the Brexit mess in the UK. In the US, two scholars say direct democracy deepens distrust of politics and government.
Major changes in the language of white supremacists have happened in the last decade that provide a window into how the groups mobilize support, shape political perceptions and advance their cause.
Amazon’s plan to invest $700 million retraining its workforce signals very soon all jobs will be STEM jobs – and higher education needs to play a bigger role.
Conflict made its way to the Supreme Court this past session with two cases – one about the census, the other about gerrymandering. A court scholar says the two cases are intimately connected.
Apps these days allow parents to track their children. An expert explains, why these technologies should be a reason for worry if you are a parent,
How can a community decide the direction it should go, if its members cannot even agree on where they are? Two political scientists say the growing phenomenon of dueling facts threatens democracy.
How do you train space engineers? You enable college students to build mini satellites, called CubeSats, launch them into space and help them collect the data.
Measles cases in the US have reached their highest in 25 years. A bioethicist argues why parents opposed to vaccination are not just wrong about the science, but about the morals.
Two management experts devised a new way to predict whether your job is likely to get stolen by a robot – and what you can do about it.
Rwanda has overcome its past to become a development miracle but if it’s not careful, history could repeat itself.
The public was shocked by the blackface image on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook page. But if blackface is now taboo, there was a time when it played a big role in American culture.
President López Obrador campaigned on some outside-the-box ideas to ‘pacify’ Mexico after 12 years of extreme violence. But so far his government has emphasized traditional law-and-order policies.
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Associate Professor of History, UMass Lowell
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Professor and Chair of History, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Nursing, UMass Lowell
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Professor and Director of Security Studies, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor & Chair of Political Science; Director of the Center for Public Opinion, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Teaching Professor of Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Marketing, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
