A quote from John Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse’s book “Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs About How Government Should Work” was included in a Nov. 5 New York Times opinion piece on the 2020 presidential election. Hibbing is the Foundation Regent University Professor of political science, and Theiss-Morse is the Cather Professor of political science.
A recent study by Kevin Smith, Olson Chair and professor of political science; John Hibbing; and Matthew Hibbing, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, suggests that American are making themselves sick over politics. The study was mentioned in a Nov. 11 New York Times opinion piece by comedy writer Blayr Austin and a Nov. 15 Chicago Tribune column by Jerry Davich.
Research by Regina Werum, sociology, and Christina Steidl, associate professor of sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shows that military veterans are more likely to earn STEM degrees and land STEM jobs than nonveterans. This is especially true for female veterans. The research was highlighted in a Nov. 7 WorkingNation article.
Jennine Capó Crucet, English, spoke during the Miami Book Fair’s Immigrants’ Tales: Nonfiction panel on Nov. 24. Crucet discussed displacement and culture shock — topics covered in her new book of autobiographical essays, “My Time Among the Whites” — in a Nov. 11 Miami New Times story.
Jody Koenig Kellas, communication studies, was quoted in a Nov. 13 Good Housekeeping article about how generations of family history are being lost because people don’t talk to each other enough. Koenig Kellas, who conducts research on family identity and storytelling, emphasized that how people tell stories matters. The story was picked up by Yahoo Style.
Writer Salman Rushdie named Chigozie Obioma’s second novel, “An Orchestra of Minorities,” one of his favorite reads of 2019 in a Nov. 20 Amazon Book Review article. Obioma is an assistant professor of English at Nebraska and internationally known author.
Author Melatu Uche Okorie said in a Nov. 21 Irish Times article that she plans to give “An Orchestra of Minorities,” which was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, as a holiday gift.
Obioma discussed his second novel in a Nov. 30 interview with The Punch Magazine.
Recent research from the late Anthony Starace and his protégé, Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, both physics and astronomy, has explained how the clockwise vs. counterclockwise spiraling of an electric field can influence how a laser pulse ejects electrons from a molecule. Phys.org and Technology.org published Nov. 25 articles on the research.
Matthew Van Den Broeke, Earth and atmospheric sciences, and colleagues at Oklahoma State University have found that prior to tornado formation, storms emit low-frequency sounds. The researchers presented their studies on the potential fluid mechanisms behind the warning noise during a conference Nov. 25 in Seattle. Scienmag published a Nov. 25 article on the research.
