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Rina Bliss
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ABC News: ‘Intelligence isn’t genetic’: Scholar and author on reassessing brilliance
Katie Couric Media: Intelligence isn't genetic: The problem with testing
Washington Post: AI can’t teach children to learn. What’s missing?
Big Think: Parents, instill in your children a “growth mindset” to help them succeed in school and beyond
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Karen A. Cerulo
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Work on dreams of the futures has been featured in
The Conversation
,
The Chicago Tribune
,
and
Psychology Today
, as well as several podcasts.
Research on the social meaning of commercial scents was featured in the Science section of
LeMonde
and on the BBC radio show
Thinking Aloud
.
Work on our inability to anticipate worst case scenarios was featured in
Slate Magazine
and
Sociology Lens
.
Featured on the radio show
Freakonomics
and in
Dame Magazine
regarding her research on public apologies.
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Ali R. Chaudhary
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Research on
immigrant voting in Europe
featured by the International Migration Institute at Oxford University.
Interviewed about New Jersey Supper Clubs as a strategy to reduce inter-group tensions between natives and immigrants in the
Asbury Park Press
and USA Today Network.
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Thomas Davidson
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Published op-eds in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog on the relationship between social media activity and far-right support
in Germany
and
Italy
.
Interviewed by
The New Scientist
,
Vox
, and
Business Insider
about his research on automated hate speech detection.
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Danielle Falzon
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Speaker at the 2021 Capacity Building Hub event on “
The Role of Universities in Building Long-term Climate Capacities
” at the UN climate negotiations COP 26.
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Paul Hirschfield
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Penned a piece in Foreign Affairs explaining why the United States stands out globally for
high rates of public mass shootings
but not overall gun homicides.
Penned a piece in the Huffington Post explaining why the United States has the
highest rate of deadly force by police
in the industrialized world.
Research featured in a Salon article by Charlie May entitled
“We may have a treatment for our police shooting epidemic we’re just not using it.”
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Leslie Kay Jones
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Silva, Katelyn. 2017.
The New Salon: Leslie Jones on the intersection of Black feminism and social media
.
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Joanna Kempner
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The Promise and Future of Psychedelics, The Pulse.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1196552850/promise-of-psychedelics
Host Maiken Scott interviews Joanna Kempner about Clusterbusters, a patient group that developed a psychedelic protocol to treat cluster headache. “How people with cluster headache become unexpected pioneers,” The Microdose, June 10, 2024.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-145276454
Michael Pollan’s substack, The Microdose, ran an excerpt of Psychedelic Outlaws, which explains the rise of psychedelic medicine through the lens of an unexpected group of pioneers: people desperate to find a treatment for cluster headache, one of the most excruciating diseases in the world.
A documentary film entitled
Out of My Head
that explores migraine, featuring Kempner’s research alongside an intimate portrayal of her life with migraine.
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Catherine Lee
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Discusses the
role of families in U.S. immigration policies
, past and present.
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Norah MacKendrick
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Time Magazine, “
You Don’t Need to Balance Your Hormones
”
May 9, 2023
MacKendrick’s editorial in The Guardian:
Your fast food wrappers contain toxic chemicals. Why is that allowed?
MacKendrick’s book Better Safe Than Sorry featured in the Washington Post, “
Scientists know plastics are dangerous. Why won’t the government say so?
” September 12, 2018
Interviewed on National Public Radio, (Madison, WI).
Should We Be More Worried About Chemicals in Food and Consumer Products?
June 12, 2018
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Quan Mai
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Interviewed by
Slate's "Better Life Lab" podcast
about the effects of gig work on sleep, April 21, 2022
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Julie Phillips
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Penned an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled
“The Dangerous Shifting Cultural Narratives around Suicide”
Sunday, March 24, 2019.
Research featured in the New York Times,
“How Suicide Quietly Morphed into a Public Health Crisis”
, June 8, 2018.
Interviewed on NPR’s Hidden Brain about
American Masculinity and Loneliness
, March 19, 2018.
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Zakia Salime
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Research featured in the New York Times,
“In a Fight for land: A Women’s Movement Shakes Morocco.”
May 7, 2017.
Interviewed by the New York Times about the public reception of Moroccan actress in her role as a sex work in controversial movie,
“Loubna Abidar, Moroccan Actress, Finds Fame Tinged with Fury.”
February, 12, 2016.
Summary of workshop at the Eliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University in Washington Post, Monkey Cage,
“The changing face of women’s political participation in the Middle East”
. May 10, 2016.
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Hana Shepherd
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An article on the
effects of unpredictable work schedules
that references Shepherd’s research on the effect on workplace relationship formation.
An interview with Prof. Sam Lucas “
This Week in Sociological Perspective
” on how schools implement anti-bullying policies.
Research featured in the New Yorker about the
role of norms in social change
.
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Arlene Stein
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Book Unbound reviewed by
New York Times
,
Harper's
,
The New Yorker
,
Kirkus
,
Bookmarks
,
Washington Post
, Men and Masculinities.
Excerpted in
Lit Hub
,
Daily Beast
.
Interviewed on
Wisconsin Public Radio
,
WNYC
,
Doing Decimal
,
CSPAN
,
Bay Area Reporter
,
Nursing Clio
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