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March 20, 2019
(Editor’s note: The Record is republishing an amended version of this item to clarify the faculty member’s position.)
Emily Wilcox, assistant professor of modern Chinese studies, addressed Chinese dance history in an article investigating the U.S.-based performing arts group Shen Yun. The group claims to perform ancient Chinese dances to international audiences, but Wilcox disputes that assertion.
The New Yorker -
March 20, 2019
Daniel Herbert, associate professor of film, television and media, was quoted in a story about Scarecrow, an iconic Seattle video store that has amassed more than 132,000 titles — many of them not available on the internet or anywhere else — but is beset by money woes.
The New York Times -
March 19, 2019
(Editor’s note: This item has been amended from its original version to clarify the faculty member’s position.)
Emily Wilcox, assistant professor of modern Chinese studies, addressed Chinese dance history in an article investigating the U.S.-based performing arts group Shen Yun. The group claims to perform ancient Chinese dances to international audiences, but Wilcox disputes that assertion.
The New Yorker -
March 19, 2019
“While federal reform efforts are important both for federal prisoners and because of the leadership role the federal government can play, only 12 percent of prisoners are in federal prisons. Truly wide-reaching national reform also requires the federal government to incentivize states and localities to change,” co-wrote Jeffrey Morenoff, professor of sociology and public policy and research professor at the Institute for Social Research.
The Hill -
March 19, 2019
Research by Kyle Sheetz, resident in general surgery, and colleagues found that just because a flagship hospital gets good marks for patient care doesn’t mean results will be equally good in affiliated hospitals in the same network: “For simple care in straightforward patients it may not make a difference. But if you’re having a heart operation or a colon removed for cancer, you want to talk to your doctor about it and ask the surgeon what kind of experience he has.”
Reuters -
March 18, 2019
“The album references there’s pain in the healing, but part of it is acknowledging. You have to know something is there to heal,” said Andy Milne, assistant professor of music, whose album “The Seasons of Being” — a musical suite based on the diagnostic principles of homeopathic healing — was created while he unknowingly had prostate cancer.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) -
March 18, 2019
A fast-moving star may have been ejected from the Milky Way’s stellar disk by a cluster of young stars, a discovery by research professor Monica Valluri and research fellow Kohei Hattori in the Department of Astronomy that represents the first time a hypervelocity star has been tracked back to a location outside of the galactic center. “This discovery dramatically changes our view on the origin of fast-moving stars,” Valluri said.
Motherboard -
March 18, 2019
“I’m concerned about kids and adults becoming accustomed to getting nutrients in sugary forms,” said Mark Moyad, a senior research associate in the Department of Urology, commenting on the increased popularity of gummy vitamins among people of all ages.
TIME -
March 17, 2019
“This scandal is just the extreme, the illegal extreme, but it’s in a continuum with legacy admissions … with all these other thumbs on the scale that wealthy kids get that are legal. There’s a lot more kids at elite colleges because their parents are rich than because they’re brown or black,” said Susan Dynarski, professor of public policy, education and economics, commenting on the elite college admissions scandal.
HuffPost -
March 17, 2019
Awilda Rodriguez, assistant professor of education, says gaining admission to an elite college smooths the path to everything graduates pursue later and opens doors: “You’re able to leverage this privilege in all of these overt and subtle ways, if you so choose, for the rest of your life.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
