Perspectives

Trump’s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world, write Mitra Naseh and Jean-Francois Trani.

Writer Edward McPherson, in Arts & Sciences, takes part in an episode of the “Smarty Pants Podcast” to discuss his new book about perspective, “Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View.”

Lana Hilliard, assistant dean of advising in Arts & Sciences, helps students get back on track with their academic goals. Learn more in Human Resources’ staff spotlight.

This small icon holds so much, and yet it can also paradoxically mean that there is nothing to see at all. Viewing it this way, an example of semiotic convergence becomes a tiny allegory for digital life writ large: a wilderness of possibilities, with so much just out of reach, writes Christopher Schaberg.

Eric Lenze, MD, the Wallace & Lucille Renard Professor of Psychiatry

Data that documents the magnitude of need won’t fix the scarcity of local assistance, but it can help guide communities in allocating limited resources.

Today’s officials have inherited and inadvertently continue a water system that was meant to exclude more than include, to punish more than teach, to restrict more than provide, writes Kristin Brig-Ortiz.

I’m a chemist, and my research team and I are interested in figuring out how to recycle and repurpose brewery waste into tiny particles that can be used to make new types of prescription drugs, writes Alcina Johnson Sudagar.

If you see a health claim that seems too good – or too bad – to be true, take a moment to mentally run the evidence through these three questions before deciding what to believe, write Amy Eyler and Kimberly Johnson.

For a dose of Halloween fun, Richard Chapman, a senior lecturer in film and media studies in Arts & Sciences, writes about visiting with Francis Ford Coppola during the filming of the 1992 movie “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”