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February 25, 2025
Hundreds of American artists are calling on the National Endowment for the Arts to roll back restrictions on grants that promote diversity or gender ideology. “In some ways this just feels like déjà vu all over again. These funding restrictions are a good barometer for who is the easy punching bag in American culture at the moment,” said Holly Hughes, professor of theatre, and art and design, and one of the so-called “NEA Four” denied funding because of concern from conservative critics in 1990.
The New York Times -
February 24, 2025
“In a world where there is danger at every turn, which is what our ancestors evolved under, anxiety was always adaptive. Rarely did anxiety cause you to ruminate and worry about things that weren’t actually going to kill you. … So, keeping that in mind might help you feel a little better about your own anxiety,” said Jacinta Beehner, professor of psychology and anthropology.
WEMU Radio -
February 24, 2025
“Federal investment in American research and open scientific dialogue have been the lifeblood of medical breakthroughs,” co-wrote Alexander Rabin, clinical associate professor of internal medicine. “The recent barrage of administrative decrees will only serve to demoralize health workers, stifle innovation, compromise clinical trials, delay the development of new treatments and harm our patients.”
The New York Times -
February 24, 2025
“Teens are susceptible to feeling insecure about their appearance when compared to digitally altered pictures depicting an appearance that is probably unattainable naturally,” said Susan Woolford, associate professor of pediatrics and public health and co-director of the National Poll on Children’s Health, which found that teens, increasingly, are getting nonsurgical cosmetic procedures.
Fortune -
February 21, 2025
“Whenever there’s a change in office … it’s really important that we preserve government websites and information as a record. And while there’s perhaps a greater sense of urgency at the moment, the work that’s happening is not brand new,” said Rebecca Frank, assistant professor of information, on the use of a digital tool to preserve online data when new presidents’ administrations take down information from past administrations.
CNN -
February 21, 2025
“We’ve detected thousands of these planets, and most by indirect means — in other words, not directly through the light they emit. It’s time to change that,” said John Monnier, professor of astronomy, who along with James Cutler, professor of aerospace engineering, and others will lead a 2029 NASA mission that will showcase the viability of a new technique for studying exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system.
DBusiness -
February 21, 2025
About 100 million Americans have trouble finding high-quality, affordable surgical care, especially people living in rural areas, says Cody Mullens, resident in general surgery: “One of the big factors creating this situation is hospitals closing in rural areas, with more than 150 lost in the last 14 years, but we can also see indications of other factors related to the health policy environment,” such as soaring out-of-pocket costs for surgeries, even for insured patients.
U.S. News & World Report -
February 20, 2025
“Interestingly, one of (the reasons) seems to be that the vision changes that come with age reduce the intensity of the degree of light stimulation that our brain receives, which plays an important role in ‘setting’ our circadian clock and keeping it on track,” said Cindy Lustig, professor of psychology, on why we wake up earlier as we age.
Buzzfeed -
February 20, 2025
The end of a partnership between the National University of Singapore and Yale University is a “cautionary tale” for international higher education institutions “who think they can be a beacon of light in authoritarian countries by collaborating with autocratic governments,” says Linda Lim, professor emerita of corporate strategy and international business.
Inside Higher Ed -
February 20, 2025
“I just really don’t want to appear to be the mad chemist who’s sprinkling chemicals all over. … I think chemists are so easy to villainize in conservation. And so we’re really trying to find the right way to get it to our patient with having the absolute minimal impact on the ecosystem,” said Timothy Cernak, associate professor of medicinal chemistry, who is engineering a new drug for chytrid, a deadly fungal disease that affects amphibians.
The New York Times
