In the Public Eye

Rina Bliss

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

Danielle Falzon

Danielle Falzon

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Berwyn, By Bob. 2025. “Built to Fail: Rules at UN Climate Talks Favor the Status Quo, Not Progress.” Inside Climate News, November 12. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12112025/un-cop-climate-talks-favor-status-quo-not-progress/.Lim, Janice. 2025. “COP30:
Adopting an Outcome on Climate Adaptation Is a Start for Financing to Flow towards Asean.” The Business Times, November 10. https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/esg/cop30-adopting-outcome-climate-adaptation-start-financing-flow-towards-asean.

Paul Hirschfield

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.”

Leslie Kay Jones

Leslie Kay Jones

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Silva, Katelyn. 2017. The New Salon: Leslie Jones on the intersection of Black feminism and social media.

Joanna Kempner

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.

Catherine Lee

Catherine Lee

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Discusses the role of families in U.S. immigration policies, past and present.

Norah MacKendrick

Norah MacKendrick

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You can put beef tallow and salmon sperm on your face. But should you? AP News. April 18, 2026
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

Quan Mai

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

Julie Phillips

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.

Zakia Salime

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.

Hana Shepherd

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.

Arlene Stein

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