Mary Blankenship (Chemistry and Economics) co-authored "How Misinformation Spreads on Twitter" with Carol Graham, Brookings Institution Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow. The pair discuss that while social media has many advantages, information pollution is prevalent and in some cases "generate[s] more engagement than factually reliable…
Ann M. Vuong (Environmental & Occupational Health) published an article on "Chemical Mixtures and Neurobehavior: A Review of Epidemiologic Findings and Future Directions" in the journal Reviews of Environmental Health. This study provides a summary of epidemiological studies that have analyzed chemical mixtures of heavy metals…
Alyssa Crittenden (Anthropology) was interviewed for a recent episode of The Food Programme on the BBC about the significance of wild meat to many Indigenous and global food systems. The story, called "Why Eat Wild Meat?" explores legal and illegal global trade in wild meat after links have been made between the COVID-19 pandemic and wild…
Erik Beehn (Art) is interviewed on The Museum of Non-Visible Art, a project by Praxis, hosted by Yale University Radio with more than 1,300 interviews in the archive. Beehn’s artwork employs painting, photography, printmaking, and installation to investigate an arc of mark-making techniques throughout the 20th century, and the evolution of…
Carlos S. Dimas (History) worked as an exam reader for the 2020 AP World History exam for high school students all over the country and abroad. He was part of a global team that successfully reviewed more than 300,000 AP high school student exams in the form of document-based essays.
Dan Lee (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Coordination and Party Change in the United States" in American Politics Research. They use evolutionary game theory to explore the dynamics of party change. An empirical analysis of roll call voting on abortion and the environment since the 1970s illustrates those dynamics.
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) and his colleagues published a piece describing the ethical and practical issues surrounding telehealth in the Southern Medical Journal. The piece titled, "Who's Flying the Plane?" appeared in the July issue.
Mark Lenker (Libraries) was interviewed in the Intellectual Freedom Blog, the blog of the American Library Association's office of intellectual freedom. The interview explores Lenker's research on the suitability of open-mindedness as an educational aim for information literacy.
C.E. Abbate (Philosophy) published a chapter, "It's Not Just a Personal Preference: Racialized Discrimination in the Tinder Context," in College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues that Affect You (Oxford University Press).

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