National news citings, July 2015

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Fri, 08/07/2015 - 08:17

College of Arts and Sciences faculty, staff and students were featured or cited in numerous national news stories during July, including:

The Los Angeles Times quoted Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies, in a widely syndicated July 30 story about the apparent downfall of “mini-mogul” Ryan Kavanaugh, whose Relativity Media Studio produced movies like “The Social Network,” and “The Fighter.”

A July 6 report in Popular Mechanics highlighted efforts by Xiao Zengand Alexander Sinitskii, chemistry, to develop a new two-dimensional supermaterial, titanium trisulfide.

The Conversation featured a July 9 piece by Aaron Duncan, communication studies, discussing how coverage of the U.S. women’s team victory in soccer’s World Cup departed from the typical coverage of women’s sports.

Moms Every Day interviewed Ming Li, psychology, for a widely used July piece on post-partum depression.

NPR’s Marketplace quoted Martha Morton, chemistry, on the importance of the nation’s helium reserve, for a July 8 story.

BTN LiveBig featured slave family history research by Will Thomas,history, in a July 25 story. Thomas and UNL are part of a digital project with the University of Maryland that archives and studies freedom petitions filed in the District of Columbia courts in the 19th Century.