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From Metabolic Rift to Metabolic Repair: A Comment on Ariel Salleh’s ‘DeColonize EcoModernism!’

Selina Gallo-Cruz

The article, authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, was published in Globalizations.

August 5, 2026

Koch Featured in Al Jazeera Documentary on the Controversy Surrounding FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

“In fact, that statistic was completely wrong. It was not like those deaths were not excess deaths. They were just South Asians who happened to die in Qatar from this time period,” says Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, about the report in The Guardian that stated more than 6,500 guest workers died since the cup was awarded to the country.

August 5, 2026

Impact of Media Guidelines on Suicide-Related Reporting Quality and Suicides: A Systematic Review...

Simone Scotti Requena, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Matthew J. Spittal, & Jane Pirkis

This brief summarizes "Impact of media guidelines on suicide-related reporting quality and suicides: A systematic review and meta-analysis," co-authored by Simone Scotti Requena, Vikas Arya, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Mark Sinyor, Michiko Ueda, Matthew J. Spittal, and Jane Pirkis in Crisis.

August 5, 2026

Longtime Health Educator, Internship Coordinator Named Maxwell Professor of Practice

Jessica Youngman

Susan Coots brings expertise in family planning and reproductive health to her new faculty role, teaching and mentoring public health students. 

August 4, 2026

Policy Design Complexity and Policy Outputs: Theory and Methods

Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, Christopher Frantz, & Nicholas Oesterling

This brief summarizes "Policy design complexity and policy outputs: Theory and methods," co-authored by Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, Christopher Frantz, and Nicholas Oesterling in Policy Design and Practice.

August 4, 2026

Linking Decision Roles to Knowledge Utilization in US State Governments: A Mixed-Method Study

Shuping Wang, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Chengxin Xu

This brief summarizes "Linking decision roles to knowledge utilization in US state governments: A mixed-method study," co-authored by Shuping Wang, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, and Chengxin Xu in Public Administration Review.


 
August 3, 2026

Medicare’s Hospital Wage Index Exceptions Grew By Nearly 60% From 2016 To 2024

Geoffrey J. Hoffman and Jun Li

This brief summarizes "Medicare’s hospital wage index exceptions grew by nearly 60% from 2016 to 2024," co-authored by Geoffrey J. Hoffman and Jun Li in Health Affairs.

August 3, 2026

Untrustworthy Sources on Facebook and Instagram: Concentrated Exposure but No Attitudinal Effects

Olivier Bergeron-Boutin, Brendan Nyhan, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, et al.

The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Political Science Emily Thorson, was published in Science Advances.

August 3, 2026

Bendix Speaks With the Associated Press About the Wildfires in Spain and France

“We’ve known for decades that extreme heat and drought are becoming more common due to anthropogenic climate change. So the general outline of these events, if not all the details, was tragically predictable,” explains Jacob Bendix, professor emeritus of geography and the environment.

August 3, 2026

Monarch Discusses the Good Side of a Trade Deficit With Marketplace

Ryan Monarch tells Marketplace that a trade deficit is not necessarily a bad thing, “If you have a trade deficit, another way of saying that is that your country is a place in which a lot of other countries really want to invest, where they want to put their money into.” 

July 31, 2026

Political Science Department
100 Eggers Hall