Adam Houston, Earth and atmospheric sciences, was interviewed for an April 3 segment on CNN about severe weather in the southeast United States. He said it was “pretty unprecedented” for a region to see multiple days of severe weather in a row. Climate change isn’t necessarily leading to more severe storms, he said, but to more variability in the weather.
Margaret Jacobs, history, director of the Center for Great Plains Studies, was interviewed for an April 16 Washington Post article on the National Endowment for the Humanities recently terminating about $1.5 million in grants to research Indian boarding schools. Jacobs and her team were just two months shy of finishing a four-year project to digitize about 10,000 pages of records from the Genoa Indian Industrial School in Nebraska when their $450,000 grant was pulled. Jacobs said the termination was “incredibly disappointing.” (This article requires a subscription.)
