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February 24, 2022
“China is again using sport to solidify its position as a global superpower. (Its) international standing in the West is likely even more precarious than it was prior to the Olympics,” said Stacy-Lynn Sant, assistant professor of sports management, on the host country’s success at suppressing protests, fending off a major COVID-19 outbreak, shrugging off a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott and striking a fresh alliance with Russia.
Nikkei Asia -
February 23, 2022
At a time when millions of Americans bank and shop online, casting votes on the internet may seem safe enough, but standards for voting should be higher, says J. Alex Halderman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science: “In banking, a certain amount of fraud is just accepted as the cost of doing business. But that’s just not how we view elections. We want there to be no fraud in elections.”
The Washington Post -
February 23, 2022
Renaming buildings is not so much erasing history as it is revising who we decide to honor, says Kristin Hass, associate professor of American culture. Like memorials, school names fall under the umbrella of a society’s cultural infrastructure, and learning in a space named after someone who looks like you feels very different than one named after someone who didn’t have high expectations of you, she says.
New Jersey.com -
February 23, 2022
Caregivers and infants are really a dyad — their outcomes and health play into each other’s — but during the pandemic, infection prevention has taken over in newborn intensive care units, says Clayton Shuman, assistant professor of nursing: “The NICU is that unique time when that connection is broken. If a mom is still recovering and the baby is removed, the restrictions during COVID lead to prolonged separation of mother and infant.”
The Atlantic -
February 22, 2022
“The electricity consumed for data storage of information is growing at an exponential rate,” said Greg Keoleian, professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Systems. “We all need to be aware that transferring each kilobyte of data and information via the internet has an environmental impact, particularly from electricity consumption from servers and routers in the network.”
Popular Science -
February 22, 2022
“It is possible that if this treatment is followed by a slow return of the blood group antigens, that the organ will ‘adapt’ to those antibodies. … This would be a major advance in solid organ transplantation,” said Marilia Cascalho, associate professor of surgery, and microbiology and immunology, commenting on an experiment to change the blood type of donated organs that could be a first step to shortening transplant wait times.
WIRED -
February 22, 2022
Enrico Rinaldi, research fellow in physics, and colleagues used quantum computing and deep learning to probe inside black holes under the framework of holographic duality, which posits that black holes might be holograms: “If a black hole can be described by the holographic duality, then we believe that the gravity in our entire universe could be also described by holography.”
VICE Magazine -
February 21, 2022
“The thing about Mozart is he always wrote so perfectly knowing what kind of instrument it was going to be played on. He made it fit. You always have the feeling when you’re playing Mozart on a fortepiano, that this is the best this piece can be played,” said Matthew Bengtson, assistant professor of music and piano literature, who performs on a replica of a 1785 fortepiano, an early piano played from the early 18th to early 19th century.
Chicago Tribune -
February 21, 2022
The American Customer Satisfaction Index, which measures how happy consumers are with goods and services, shows a 5.2 percent decline in quality since 2018, with the bulk of it coming in the last two years. “Due to the pandemic, the problem has been amplified by a lack of product availability, supply issues and labor shortages,” said Claes Fornell, ACSI founder and professor emeritus of marketing.
Bloomberg -
February 21, 2022
“Many of my students want and need to go to Japan because that is where their research focus is. … I am worried that these close-minded policies will undo the benefits from decades of funding and educational opportunities for students and scholars,” said Allison Alexy, associate professor of modern Japanese culture, on the growing frustration over Japan’s coronavirus-driven entry restrictions.
Times Higher Education
