Universities and Labs

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (953+ words) Young Australians are going backwards financially. Vitaly Gariev / Unsplash If you were born after 1990 or so, you grew up during one of Australia’s great eras of prosperity. And you were raised to believe that if you followed certain rules, you…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (264+ words) Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the National Association of Scholars’s weekly CounterCurrent newsletter on August 24, 2026. My colleague Kali Jerrard does an excellent job each week covering the latest developments in higher education, and I’m happy to crosspost…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (366+ words) In sixth grade, Matilda Fillion completed a class project on Mongolia — on the other side of the world from her Rhode Island hometown. Today, the mathematics major is one of four Binghamton University students headed to the country’s capital of…...