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In the Media

GQ: What research shows about the alleged link between mental illness and gun violence

Aug. 5, 2019

(Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, and Kenneth MacLeish, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society, research highlighted)


NPR, 1A: A Pair Of Mass Shootings

Aug. 5, 2019

(Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health and Society, featured)


Public News Service: TN Proclamation Law Aimed at Keeping “Memory of the Confederacy Alive”

Aug. 5, 2019

(Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of American History, interviewed)


Wall Street Journal: White nationalists pose challenge to investigators

Aug. 5, 2019

(Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health and Society, quoted)


New York Times: A battle is raging in the tree of life

Aug. 2, 2019

(Antonis Rokas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences, quoted)


The Conversation: Political polarization is about feelings, not facts

Jul. 31, 2019

( Robert Talisse,  W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, authored)


NBC News: In Puerto Rico, uncertainty grows over Rosselló’s promise of an ‘orderly transition’

Jul. 30, 2019

(Gabriel Torres Colón, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, quoted)



Space.com: Dark matter hasn’t killed anybody yet — and that tells us something

Jul. 26, 2019

(Robert Scherrer, Professor of Physics, quoted)


USA Today: With Ricardo Rosselló out as governor, Puerto Rico ‘needs to regain its moral compass and hope.’ But, how?

Jul. 26, 2019

(Gabriel Torres Colón, senior lecturer in American studies, quoted)