The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project, co-directed by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Margaret Jacobs, garnered significant national and international media attention in October.
Researchers say they have discovered the names of 102 students who died while at the Genoa Indian School, the Omaha World-Herald reported Nov. 12. The Associated Press version of the article was picked up by 130-plus media outlets, including ABC News, The Guardian, USA Today, The Washington Post and Yahoo! News. The World-Herald published another article on the boarding school Nov. 28.
The project was highlighted Nov. 5 in The Daily Yonder, Nov. 16 in the Independent and Esquire, Nov. 17 in The New York Times and Nov. 23 in Mother Jones.
Jacobs, Charles Mach Professor of History and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Nebraska, also wrote a Nov. 24 guest column for The Washington Post on how to address the American history of ripping Indigenous children from their families and sending them to boarding schools.
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Tim Borstelmann, history, was quoted in a Nov. 10 USA Today article on the Freedom Riders whose 1961 sit-in campaign helped lead to the desegregation of U.S. Route 40 in Maryland. “(The campaign) just sharpened the hypocrisy of being a ‘free country’ that didn’t allow freedom for all of its people,” he said. “And that’s a huge stimulus to the civil rights reforms that are going to come — the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Yahoo! News picked up the story.
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Kathryn Holland, psychology and women’s and gender studies, was interviewed for a Nov. 12 Inside Higher Ed article on the new Center for Institutional Courage. Holland and Wichita State University’s Rachael Goodman-Williams are conducting a survey of Title IX coordinators to learn more about their mandatory reporting policies and how they’re implemented, the practitioners’ attitudes toward those policies, and predictive factors of those attitudes. The researchers received a $4,000 grant from the center.
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Tim Gay, physics and astronomy, was featured in a recent NFL Films video. He discussed the physics behind a well-thrown football pass.
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Margaret Huettl, history and ethnic studies, discussed the history of the Oregon Trail on the Nov. 23 episode of the podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.” Huettl, who has Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal ancestors, was one of three historians who consulted on the new “Oregon Trail” video game.
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Jocelyn Bosley, research impact coordinator, was featured on the American Association for the Advancement of Science website on Nov. 24. “Bosley is all about breaking barriers, whether they’re divisions that foster rigid thinking or socio-cultural constructs that impede talented scientists from fulfilling their potential,” the article read.
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Phys.org published a Nov. 29 Q&A with David Harwood, Earth and atmospheric sciences. He discussed his work in light of the recent United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, focused on climate change.
Harwood will help lead a new multinational team that is drilling into Antarctica’s past to gain a glimpse at Earth’s future. Stories on the Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet 2C project appeared in Scienmag and a few other media outlets.
