The Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Criminology position to begin Aug...

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Why should the right own parenting and caretaking, asks Samantha Mann.

The federal government was supposed to release a definition of ultraprocessed foods. What happened?

The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

Published in Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Mary-Collier Wilks opens Reimagining Aid at a USAID workshop in Phnom Penh where a debate erupts over whether Western ideas about gender empowerment can co

To many in the country’s development sector, the sudden collapse of the U.S. aid agency felt “like an earthquake.”

Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.

McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, April 20, 2026 The latest numbers on foreign aid are out, and 2025 proved to be a record-breaking year – but not for the right reasons. It was a historic retreat, w...

2026 Policy Brief #1 "Co-Creation Plus Cash" Mary-Collier Wilks, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Join the Tobias Center and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs for a discussion with Mary-Collier Wilks (University of North C...

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Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

The risk of closure and repression in schoolsIn the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to...

By Mary-Collier Wilks In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would reduce foreign aid spending. By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially s...

The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough

By Mary-Collier Wilks In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would reduce foreign aid spending. By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially…

By Mary-Collier Wilks In February 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would reduce foreign aid spending. By July 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was officially s...

Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia

ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats .

The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.