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Where tomorrow's scientists prefer to live − and where they'd rather not
(THE CONVERSATION) Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere they may not want to live. This advice is because of how hard it is to get a tenure-track professor position.
These days, this advice may be less relevant as graduate students a ... (full story)
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America's highest value
(THE CONVERSATION) Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the prospect of execution. In 1998, a jury convicted Duncan of murdering his girlfriend's 23-month-old daughter, and he had been on death row ever since.
Louisiana has a ... (full story)
Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court
(THE CONVERSATION) For more than 150 years, almost all people who were born within U.S. territory automatically received citizenship – regardless of their parents' immigration status.
President Donald Trump's January 2025 executive order on birthright citizenship – stating that children born in the U.S. to parents wh ... (full story)
New Summit Cty. court program shines spotlight on jury service
From juror eligibility and the details of service to understanding the functioning of the court system—those are a few of the topics covered in a new Summit County court program available across the state called Discovering Justice.
Unveiled in February by the judges in the General Division of the Summit County Court of Co ... (full story)
The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls
(THE CONVERSATION) You've probably noticed lately that a lot of people are trying out alternatives to the big social media networks X, Instagram and Facebook. For example, after Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and started allowing far more disinformation and hateful content on the site, renamed X, advertisers and users started back ... (full story)