In a new study, researchers from the Tepper School of Business and other universities examined the impact of avatars’ gender and race on transaction prices in the NFT marketplace. They found that contrary to expectations, there were pronounced gender and racial disparities in NFT prices. They also found that avatars with features associated with high-tech or higher education countered these disparities. The authors offer insights into policy strategies to promote racial and gender equity in the NFT marketplace.

In October 2024, the GenAI4ED project officially began—a groundbreaking international initiative funded by Horizon Europe in which IMDEA Networks is actively involved. The project aims to explore how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools can revolutionize secondary education. Scheduled to run until September 2027, GenAI4ED focuses on developing a digital platform to assess and select GenAI-based educational software, promoting its effective integration into classrooms.

Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers.

Teenage girls are also increasingly more likely to skip school than boys across Anglophone countries.

Tennesseans value the importance of higher education, according to The Tennessee Poll, conducted in July by the Applied Social Research Lab (ASRL) at East Tennessee State University, which found that 45% of Tennesseans believe that a college education is very important or extremely important in “helping a young person succeed in the world today.” That figure is compared to 41% who indicated that a college education is “somewhat important” and 14% who indicated it is “not too important.”