An April 7 report on the university’s first virtual reality class aired on TV stations across the country, including WDBJ 7, a CBS station serving Roanoke, Virginia. Originating on Lincoln station KOLN-KGIN, the story quoted Christopher Bourke, computer science and engineering.
The New York Times quoted Bedross Der Matossian, history, in an April 22 article about the discovery of a telegram described as a “smoking gun” showing government involvement with the Armenian genocide that began in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.
An April 7 U.S. News & World Report story on Wall Street's downgrading of movie theater industry stocks featured Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies. The Arizona Republic quoted Dixon on a similar topic for an April 11 report on the growing trend of movie theaters providing restaurant and bar service. In The Christian Science Monitor on April 25, Dixon warned that valuable resource books could be lost as campus libraries move away from book storage to other student services.
The Bookseller announced April 27 that Little, Brown publishers had acquired the rights to a new novel by Chigozie Obioma, English. Obioma’s first book, “The Fishermen,” made the short list for the Man Booker Prize in 2015.
In coverage appearing April 26-28, the Deseret News, The Christian Post and NPR Morning Edition included comments from Phillip Schwadel, sociology, on a Pew Research Center analysis that a college education does not necessarily spell the end of religious belief.
John Wunder, history and journalism emeritus professor, was quoted in a March 1 Smithsonian.com story about the legacy of Susan La Flesche, the first Native physician in 1889.
Jay Storz, biological sciences, was mentioned in a April 20 article in Chemical & Engineering News on how naked mole rats regulate their metabolism to survive without oxygen for prolonged periods. Storz co-authored commentary associated with the study for Science magazine.
