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TED’s How to Be a Better Human: How to think critically about history — and why it matters
Feb. 7, 2024—David Ikard, professor of African American and diaspora studies, interviewed.
WPLN: Explained: the ‘dubious’ legal basis for Republican governors resisting Supreme Court order
Feb. 7, 2024—Robert Barsky, professor of French and comparative literature, interviewed.
Reason: The real student loan crisis isn’t from undergraduate degrees
Feb. 7, 2024—The research of Lesley Turner, associate professor of economics, cited.
Greenville News: Cruel, unusual or corporal? SC Supreme Court revisits using firing squad, electric chair
Feb. 7, 2024—John Wikswo, A. B. Learned Professor and University Distinguished Professor of Physics, quoted.
The Tennessean: ‘Defeat Donald Trump’: Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney on the future of the Republican Party
Feb. 7, 2024—Jon Meacham, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science, featured.
Associated Press: Women dominated the 2024 Grammy Awards. Is the tide turning?
Feb. 7, 2024—Emily Lordi, Edwin Mims Professor and professor of English, quoted.
The Washington Post: A Congress in crisis
Feb. 7, 2024—The research of Alan Wiseman, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, and Patrick Buhr, political science doctoral student, cited.
People Behind the Science Podcast: Investigating the Intersection of Nutrition and Bacterial Infection and Pathogenesis
Feb. 5, 2024—Eric Skaar, professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, interviewed.
TIME: Guns are not just a public health problem
Feb. 5, 2024—Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and professor of medicine, health, and society, authored this opinion piece. The Los Angeles Times also featured Metzl’s new book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
MSNBC: A Nashville 2018 mass shooting is at the heart of ‘What We’ve Become’
Feb. 2, 2024—Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and professor of medicine, health, and society, interviewed.