Karen Lutfey Spencer, Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences, studies patient-provider relationships and health disparities. In a recent interview on the show Central Time with Wisconsin Public Radio , Spencer spoke on women, transgender people, and people of color and how they are more likely to be doubted by doctors...

Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, co-wrote an article for The Conversation regarding the Oct. 4th national test message.The message was expected to state, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert system. No action is needed.” Bean instead suggests that action is, in fact,...

Jim Grigsby, Professor of Clinical Health Psychology, spoke with The Wyoming Truth on the regulation and monitoring of legal psychedelics in clinical settings. He teaches cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology and is a co-leader of a groundbreaking study of psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat psychiatric and existential distress in people with late-stage...

Jamie Hodgkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has been interviewed by another archaeologist about her review of the Homo Naledi research for a YouTube channel (39,476 views). An international podcast called Science VS. (#1 science podcast on Spotify) also interviewed her for its most recent episode .

Michael Moore, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, led a study analyzing data on 800 species of insects around the world and discovered that flying insects (many of them pollinators) are migrating at slower rates than their non-flying counterparts and appear to be dying at faster rates. That includes many insect...

Peter Kopp, Associate Professor in History, commented on the impact of Fabián García, a Mexican-American horticulturist who pioneered new ways to grow food in the hot and dry conditions of the American Southwest and became known as the father of the New Mexico chile. “[García] transformed the physical landscape, and...

Alan Sumler, lecturer in Modern Languages, weighs in on whether the Ancient Romans consumed cannibis. Sumler found enough references to the reefer in Greek, Latin and Roman texts to write a book about it in 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World . According to Sumler, there is...

James Walsh, Clinical Teaching Track Assistant Professor in Political Science, says unions are seeing a surge in power thanks in part to low unemployment that puts workers more in demand and anger over CEOs and their huge salaries, which are on average 350 times higher than salaries of average workers...

On Sept. 6, The New Yorker named John Tinnell's recently published book, The Philosopher of Palo Alto , one of “The Best Books We’ve Read this Week,” and the magazine featured a review of the book in its September 11 issue. A second review of his book just appeared in...

A detailed review of evidence, slated to be published in the Journal Evolutionary Anthropology , challenges the obstetrical dilemma - the theory of trade‐off between selection for a larger birth canal (permitting successful passage of a big‐brained human neonate) and the smaller pelvic dimensions required for bipedal locomotion. In the...