News-Media Coverage
- Andrew Dessler (Arts and Sciences), The Cool Down, about the United States experiencing its hottest summer in over a century due to heat domes, and how the intensified heat was forecasted by scientists decades ago.
- Babak Taheri (Agriculture and Life Sciences), Knowridge, about airport managers using cellphone tower signals from passengers’ phones to help make practical decisions and plan for busy periods or congestion.
- Carter Racine (Engineering), SPACE.com, about taking carbon dioxide from Mars’ atmosphere and using a technique known as electrochemical reduction to produce rocket fuel. (Paywall)
- Chenoa Yorgason (Government and Public Service), Arizona Daily Star Online, about long ballots reducing voter turnout and findings that young voters and less-educated voters are less likely to start the voting process due to feeling overwhelmed.
- David Anderson (Agriculture and Life Sciences), KBTX, about factors slowing U.S. beef cattle herd expansion, including drought, high input and replacement cow costs, as well as rising land values.
- Diane Davis (Engineering), Yahoo! Canada News, about Gateway, a small space station that will be implemented by NASA in the next 20 years to support lunar missions and manage cosmic traffic flow.
- Gabriela Vigo-Trauco (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), BBC, about her mission to save young scarlet macaws, an endangered species, after they’ve been intentionally starved by their parents.
- Ian Hughes (Arts and Sciences), MSN, about how political issues can follow people into the workplace, affecting employee stress, relationships with coworkers and the overall work environment.
- Ian Hughes (Arts and Sciences), ABC 15, about how small financial changes, whether they are positive or negative, make a big difference in how stressed people feel, suggesting that managing everyday spending is just as important as earning money.
- Jake Ryave (Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Innovative Veterinary Care, about the need to focus on pet owners in end-of-life care plans, noting that emotions are intense and traumatic, and that owners whose pets die suddenly may miss grief resources typically provided during a clinic-based euthanasia appointment.
- Mark Berend (Public Health), Fast Company Online, about the development of a computer mouse, which tracks biometrics, and an artificial intelligence avatar, which acts like a neurologist, that work together to help diagnose early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
- Qian Wang (Dentistry), 30 onet, about the first archaeological evidence of nose amputation as a form of punishment in ancient China, based on healed facial injuries found in a woman buried in central China. (Polish)
- Rebecca Fischer (Public Health), People, about a mysterious kidney disease affecting Texas farm workers and the lack of answers about what causes it.
- Richard Kreider (Education and Human Development), Men’s Journal Online, about the benefits of creatine for adults even when they don’t implement exercise or diet intervention.
- Robert Ambrose (Engineering), Finance BigGo, about developing the RoboBall, a spherical exploration rover set to explore the Shackleton Crater on the lunar south pole of the Moon.
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