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Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyers (in Portuguese)
The Conversation (Brazilian Edition)
Aug. 25, 2025
In Portuguese: The article coauthored by Stuart Sumida (biology), president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, about the trend of fossils being sold at auctions to private collections, was picked up by the Brazilian edition of The Conversation: “Fósseis são evidências científicas e não devem ser vendidos para colecionadores privados.”
Students' Perceptions of and Experience With Online Test Preparation (Rehearsal) and Testing
IGI Global
Yui Li (accounting and finance), Jing Zhang (management), Miranda McIntyre (psychology), Gölge Seferoğlu (education) and Montgomey Van Wart (public administration) published a study that “investigates students' perceptions of rehearsal (test preparation) and testing after the pandemic forced increased online teaching use and experimentation. Data was gathered from information and decision sciences (IDS) students in an underrepresented minority (URM) serving university.”
Populism Trumps Ideology: Poverty Relief Policy under Mexico’s López Obrador and Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Journal of Latin American Studies
Fabian Borges (political science) examined policy design under populist and non-populist governments. “Leveraging the near-simultaneous election of left-wing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico and right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, this article analyses populism’s effect on cash transfer programmes.”
Public Support for Drug Courts: Beyond a Second Chance
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Sishi Wu (criminal justice), published a study that “is the first to assess public support for drug courts as a “third chance,” referring to an additional opportunity, beyond the initial and second chances, to receive rehabilitative support.”
Women’s labour force participation in developing countries: The impact of gendered landownership rights
World Development
Yasemin Dildar (economics) coauthored a study that used “cross-country panel data analysis and a case study from India with a difference-in-differences model to demonstrate that legal discrimination against women in land inheritance curtails female participation in non-agricultural paid employment.”
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