News-Media Coverage
- Ali Bicer (Education and Human Development), Government Technology, about the development of artificial intelligence-assisted training modules that provide personalized feedback to help aspiring math teachers strengthen their content knowledge and mathematical creativity, and the use of the modules to train 900 pre-service teachers across eight universities.
- Benika Dixon (Public Health), Yale Climate Connections, about the extreme heat faced by incarcerated people in Texas prisons, where more than half sleep without air conditioning, and calls for policies to protect them as heat waves become more severe.
- Israel Arevalo (Telehealth Institute), The Center Square, about findings that Texas’ classroom cellphone ban is helping teachers reclaim attention, reduce anxiety and improve students’ social interaction, and consistent limits on device use at home can strengthen the benefits.
- Jessi Halligan, Nick Bentley and Trevor Gittelhough (Arts and Sciences), The Allegheny Front, about searching Lake Erie for well-preserved evidence of people who lived there at the end of the Ice Age, which could shed light on early Indigenous life and how humans adapted to a changing climate.
- John Nielsen-Gammon (Arts and Sciences), Chron, about how Texas will likely have a wetter-than-normal cool season due to the El Niño weather pattern, but significant snowfall remains unlikely across much of the state.
- Jonathan Jensen (Education and Human Development), KBTX, about the upcoming Football Analytics Symposium, a one-day event covering football analytics, injury prevention and more organized by the Collaborative for Sport Data Science.
- JoHyun Kim (Education and Human Development) and former graduate student Heesun Kim, ScienMag, about study findings that community college students’ STEM aspirations and career alignment varied by gender and socioeconomic status, while purposeful STEM coursework, strong early grades and math confidence helped students turn STEM aspirations into careers.
- Jun Wang and Rajesh Miranda (Medicine), Memesita!, about how prenatal exposure to alcohol rewires the brain’s decision-making hub, leading to a significant reduction in the neurons that regulate how the brain adapts to new or unexpected situations.
- Laura Dague (Government and Public Service), The Texas Tribune, about how federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies could affect healthcare coverage and costs, particularly in South Texas.
- Lena Harris (Government and Public Service), KSL, about estimates that health impacts from Great Salt Lake dust could cost $1.1 billion to $2.3 billion annually, providing policymakers with the first quantitative estimate of the health costs associated with the lake’s declining water levels.
- Lynn Krebs (Texas Real Estate Research Center), The Texas Tribune, about an analysis explaining that Brownsville’s rising home prices and property taxes are driven largely by new housing construction and that local governments can use tax-rate and housing policies to help manage the effects of rapid growth.
- Maria Pia Miglietta (Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies), The Cool Down, about a study showing that the “immortal jellyfish,” whose unique ability to reverse its life cycle continues to offer insights into aging and regeneration, has spread across the world’s oceans, likely through commercial shipping.
- Marie Strader and James Fifer (Arts and Sciences), Seven Seas Media, about how the 2019 marine heat wave on the island of Mo’orea acted as a powerful force of natural selection since genetically more heat-tolerant corals survived and passed those traits to the next generation, along with a disclaimer that adaptation is not a substitute for addressing ocean warming.
- Matthew Beck (Agriculture and Life Sciences), OKC FOX, about how heat and drought affect cattle production and recommendations for strategies, like using smaller, mature cows and adjusting stocking rates, to help producers maintain herd productivity and resilience.
- Siddharth Misra (Engineering), CBS News, about how Venezuela’s heavy crude would pose technical challenges for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and suggestions for a “molecular swap” in which the oil is sold to Gulf Coast refineries and the proceeds used to purchase lighter crude for the reserve.
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