A new paper in the Journal of Health Psychology by Alyssa Lundahl and Timothy D. Nelson, psychology, explored the connection between sleep disruption and obesity. It was covered by several online outlets, such as Newsmax, Big News Network, Yahoo! Health and South China Morning Post.
OpenDemocracy, an independent website operated by a nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom, quoted Bedross der Matossian, history, in a June 24 article examining the parallels between the Arab spring of 2011 and the Young Turk revolution, the coup d’etat that overturned the Ottoman empire in 1908. Der Matossian recently authored “Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire.”
The A.V. Club, an entertainment site published by The Onion, quoted Wheeler Winston Dixon, film studies, in a June 20 story on the history of the film trailer.
A study by Dane Hautala and Les Whitbeck, sociology, investigating youth gang involvement on American Indian reservations and Canadian First Nations reserves was covered by Indian Country Today Media Network on June 15.
C-Span3’s American History TV covered Lincoln in June , with frequent references to UNL, including book talks by Margaret Jacobs, history, on “A Generation Removed,” Andrew Jewell, English, on “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.”
Ari Kohen, political science, cited Nebraskans’ “independent-mindedness” in a June 1 Daily Beast article that investigated why the legislature in a conservative state decided to repeal the death penalty and raise gasoline taxes.
Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, psychology, was mentioned in the June 30 Orange County Register in a story about her research partner Russ Espinoza and their work studying racism among jurors in death penalty case.
