The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Courtney Hillebrecht wrote a guest column for The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog on how the International Criminal Court is investigating possible war crimes by Russia in Ukraine. The article was among 25-plus national news stories featuring Husker faculty, staff, students, centers and programs in March. Hillebrecht, Samuel Clark Waugh Professor of international relations and director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, wrote in the March 21 column that the ICC faces a significant challenge in holding Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders accountable. “If Russia does not cooperate with the ICC or other international courts in times of peace, what can we expect in times of war?” she said.
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Deirdre Cooper Owens, history, director of the Humanities in Medicine program, spoke as part of the University of Buffalo medical school’s “Beyond the Knife” series, which is aimed at fighting systemic racism in the health care industry, the Buffalo News reported March 9. She spoke about racist medical experimentation in the 1830s as well as present-day attitudes and behaviors that contribute to racial disparities in health care.
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The National Herald published a March 13 review of Bedross Der Matossian’s new book, “The Horrors of Adana.” Der Matossian is the Hymen Rosenberg Associate Professor in Judaic Studies and vice chair of the Department of History at Nebraska.
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Rupal Mehta, political science, co-wrote a March 14 piece for War on the Rocks with Jelena Vićić, a postdoctoral scholar with the Center for Peace and Security Studies at the University of California, San Diego, titled “Why Russian cyber dogs have mostly failed to bark.” “The notable absence of cyber options employed so far (in the Russia-Ukraine conflict) has puzzled cyber security experts,” the writers noted.
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Martha Morton, chemistry, director of research instrumentation at Nebraska, was interviewed for a March 16 Chemical and Engineering News article on the conflict in Ukraine exacerbating the helium shortage. She said her price per liter has risen more than 20%. Smaller universities and private labs might have to shut down their nuclear magnetic resonance instruments, she said, a process that is expensive and difficult to do without damaging the instruments. The instruments and related tools use liquid helium to cool superconducting magnets.
