A House Divided

Most Men And Women Want The Same Kind Of Marriage – Until They Don’t

By Lisa Wade, Occidental College

The Art of Transformation

After-School Programs & The Arts As Tools For Youth Development

By Matthew Gregg, Rupayan Gupta, Roger Williams University & Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Brown University

Human Capital

How Can States Attract Skilled Workers?

By Shani D. Carter, Rhode Island College & Jongsung Kim, Bryant University

Arts & Culture Economy

Should States Invest In The Arts As A Tool For Economic Growth?

By Deborah Johnson, Providence College & Francis J. Leazes Jr., RIC

Better Business

The Benefits Of Buying Local

By Dawn King, Brown University & Joseph Ilacqua, Bryant University

Engineering Innovation

Building A Manufacturing Sector For Tomorrow’s Economy

By Richard Brown, URI, Dean Plowman, NEIT, Gilbert Brunnhoeffer & Linda Riley, Roger Williams

Money Matters

Do Citizens “Vote With Their Feet?” How Taxes Affect Where People Choose To Live

By Shani D. Carter, Rhode Island College

Learning To Behave

What Should A Robot Do? Designing Robots That Know Right From Wrong

By AJung Moon, University of British Columbia

Quantity Over Quality

Fake Papers A Symptom Of More Serious Problems In Academia

By Achilleas Kostoulas, University of Manchester

Profit & Loss

The Exploitative Economics Of Academic Publishing

By Samuel Gershman, MIT

Step by Step

How To Design More Walkable Cities

By Enrique Martinez, Rhode Island School of Design

Misdirected Money

Why We Try (And Fail) To Keep Sunk Costs Afloat

By Suzannah Weiss, Footnote

Nature vs. Nurture?

Epigenetics: How Nurture Shapes Our Nature

By Timothy Erick, Brown University

Strengthening Science

Making Scientific Research More Reliable By Addressing The “Reproducibility Problem”

By Sarah Weil, Columbia University

Replicating Results

Why Biomedical Research Has A Reproducibility Problem

By Sarah Weil, Columbia University

Making Research Count

An Innovative Partnership Connects Academics With Policymakers

By Daniel P. Egan, AICU of RI & Amber Caulkins, The Collaborative