Science & Technology

Confronting Bias & Fears: Why AI Is Both Promise and Peril for Educators

In November 2023, I was introduced to AI through my son, Brandon, the millennial who…

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for an Affordable Quality of Life

In many countries like China and the U.S., retirement is increasingly becoming a distant vision, even for the old.…

Time For A Cure: Step Up To Eliminate Hepatitis C

Despite having a safe and effective cure for hepatitis C infection, the U.S. is failing 2.4 million Americans living with it because of an outdated and unnecessarily complicated treatment system.

STEM At Risk? Higher Ed Must Heed Humanities Warnings

Humanists have long understood themselves as the canary in the coal mine of higher education. …

TikTok Ban Needs More Work

President Joe Biden signed into law a requirement for ByteDance to sell TikTok or be banned from…

Why Scientific Publishing Culture Needs a Major Overhaul in the age of Generative AI

Scientific publishing and the prevailing “publish or perish” paradigm within academia have long been considered…

Equipping Educators for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

According to a recent survey conducted by the Cengage Group and Bay View Analytics, a mere 16% of educators feel…

Every day is Groundhog Day in the humanities

This time of year, a lot of people watch, or re-watch, the 1993 film Groundhog Day. TV…

OpenAI’s Lack of Gender Diversity on its Corporate Board Could Be an Existential Threat to Humanity

Sam Altman was recently fired as CEO of OpenAI by a board of directors that…

What Senator Cory Booker gets wrong about Black people and AI

Recently, Senator Cory Booker sat down with tech insiders to discuss equity, discrimination, and Blackness, as…

ChatGPT for therapy? Houston, we have a problem

The US Space Force has clamped down on its use of ChatGPT, citing security concerns and the…

Girls should be free to make messes and keep the science tidy

This October, astronomy enthusiasts in the northern hemisphere can spot a comet first seen by Pierre…

Ed Tech in the Post-Pandemic Times

I teach graduate education students on how to integrate educational technology in their future classrooms.…

Think Before You Spit: DNA Testing Can Disrupt Mature Families

In midlife, I suddenly became a middle child.  Two years ago, our parents sat my younger…

Calling all women in STEM: Let’s more consciously create and use our networks!

As an East Asian (Korean) woman in academic medicine, I am not statistically underrepresented, but there…