Research Q&A: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry in the Heartland Former U.S. poet laureate reflects on what she learned from rural America
Research Advancing a Smarter and Safer Internet of Things Behind the Research: Niraj Jha, electrical engineering
Research History: Trenton in the ’60s A research and civic-engagement project delves into an uprising and its aftermath
Research Psychology: Bias, Quantified New study explores how bias leads to more school punishments for black children
Research Sociology: Janet Vertesi on Fair Necessities With training, a new generation of designers could reduce bias in machines
Research Essay: Good Enough Is Enough The desire for greatness often eclipses the importance of a good-enough life
Research History: Rhae Lynn Barnes on an American Stain A Princeton scholar explains the insidious and pervasive history of blackface
Research Paying Attention to Our Planet’s Parasites Behind the Research: Andy Dobson, ecology and evolutionary biology
Research Creative Writing: Phil Klay, Soldier-Scholar A ‘quintessential storyteller’ of America’s war in Iraq
Research Sociology and Public Affairs: How Facts Are Distorted New paper explains how scientific facts become skewed in the age of information
Research Going With the Flow to Make Cities More Sustainable Behind the Research: Elie Bou-Zeid, civil and environmental engineering
Research Economics: Big Women on Campus Having female department chairs may increase diversity and pay in academia