BALTIMORE, MD, May 15, 2025 – As automation and globalization continue reshaping the workforce, high-paying jobs in traditionally male-dominated sectors are shrinking while demand for roles in healthcare, education and other “feminine” industries surges. But despite strong salaries and job security, men remain reluctant to enter these fields. Why? Groundbreaking new research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science has the answer – and a solution.
BALTIMORE, MD, May 13, 2025 – Researchers who took a close look at loosened concealed carry laws between 2010 and 2017 have found that “Shall Issue” regulations, which remove local authority discretion on the issuance of concealed carry gun permits, contribute to a significant increase in handgun purchases. At the same time, the researchers found that in states that adopted “Permitless Carry” policies, there was no noticeable change in gun purchases.
With sweeping new tariffs on Chinese-made products set to take effect this summer, Americans are being urged to prepare for price hikes on everyday goods. President Donald Trump's reinstated trade policies are expected to affect a wide swath of consumer imports, including electronics, furniture, appliances, and baby gear. Retail experts are advising shoppers to act before the tariffs hit and prices rise.
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Sadan Kulturel-Konak was recently named an academic member elected to the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) for the 2020–23 term.
North Carolina will move to Phase 2 of its reopening from the coronavirus shutdown on Friday — at a time when a few of the state’s 100 counties are experiencing spikes in their case counts. Cases of the novel coronavirus in counties including Wayne, Duplin, Forsyth and Guilford have risen sharply over the last two weeks, highlighting some of the issues with trying to manage reopening across a large and varied state.
Color psychology involves studying how different shades and hues affect someone’s behavior or feelings. Color has a surprisingly strong influence on the human psyche and can dictate whether an advertising campaign is successful or mediocre.
A self-described optimist, Pinar Keskinocak doesn’t like to be the bearer of bad news. But the model she codeveloped at Georgia Tech of the COVID-19 pandemic in that state paints a “really bleak” picture of what lies ahead when physical distancing slowly erodes after shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders end.
This just in: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced they are preparing to start taking passengers’ temperatures as a way to move forward and help increase safety and prevent COVID-19 infected passengers from boarding airplanes. While this sounds good in theory, it will do nothing to make air travel safer for passengers.
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