About The Study: The findings of this study suggest that elimination of race-conscious admissions coincided with declines in medical school diversity, threatening progress toward health care equity. Medical schools must explore alternative admissions strategies, such as holistic review processes that account for structural barriers. Without such efforts, reduced diversity in medical education may worsen existing health disparities. 

The Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich in July 2026. Using external funds provided by the Lemann Foundation, the two researchers will establish a new center for development economics, education and public policy.

Family size significantly influences parents’ education spending, with single-child parents favoring deficit-based solutions and multi-child parents prioritizing strength-based programs.

In a new study, researchers developed an automated approach to assess how easily understandable patient educational videos are for individuals looking for information on diabetes. The study’s findings offer insights for content creators and health care organizations on improving users’ engagement with online materials by developing a digital therapeutic approach that uses evidence-based digital health technologies to change behavior persuasively.

Previous research has shown that higher education dampens support for capital punishment, but University of Nebraska scholars have discovered those collegiate effects are lessened among conservatives.

A new large-scale analysis of existing research finds that school-provided social and emotional learning (SEL) programs improve students’ academic achievement in addition to their social and emotional development.