Three recent crises — the 2021 winter storm in Texas, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Boeing 737 Max software failure — highlight the cost of valuing efficiency over resilience and provide lessons for bringing society into balance. Continue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has widened the educational gap between students from high- and low-income households. School administrators from the elementary to the college level must address the disparities between these groups to resolve America’s deepening education crisis. Continue Reading
Contact tracing efforts depend on the quality of case reporting data. Do differences in public health funding across states explain regional variation in data quality? Continue Reading
Some states still face challenges with racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and Texas is one of them. How might we avoid these inequities in the future? Continue Reading
The Endless Frontier Act, with its focus on technological development, could detract from the National Science Foundation’s mission to advance curiosity-driven research, instead moving the agency toward funding use-inspired, applied research. Continue Reading
Partisan division is severely inhibiting the United States’ COVID-19 response 10 months after the pandemic began. The health consequences of the continued political divide could not be clearer as the pandemic has grown beyond many experts’ worst predictions. Continue Reading
I’ve learned to appreciate small moments of beauty and promise peppered a year filled with doubt and frustration. I hope to take this mindset forward into the future, to admire the little things and make small changes to subtly improve my mood and the world around me. Continue Reading