Carly Kocurek Publishes New Alternate Reality Game
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies Carly Kocurek recently completed an experimental project that was highlighted in the most recent issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New...
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Who Experiences Trauma During Parent-Child Separations at the Border?
TRANSCRIPT In the context of what’s going on right now with immigration and what ICE agents are doing in terms of separating families, I honestly don’t know if we can even know how painful that must...
Marie Hicks Appointed National Humanities Center Fellow
Marie Hicks, associate professor of history at Ï㽶´«Ã½, was recently appointed as a fellow of the National Humanities Center. Hicks is one of 39 new fellows who will conduct individual research...
How Active Fantasy Sports Can Transform Couch Potatoes
TRANSCRIPT This is a project that we call Active Fantasy Sports, and it is a game designed to help people exercise and be more physically active. And it’s built on the infrastructure of an existing...
Professor Scores Patent for Game Blending Fantasy Sports and Exercise
Ï㽶´«Ã½ Associate Professor of Psychology Arlen Moller was playing online fantasy sports with friends when the idea hit him: What if he could take the same features that made fantasy sports fun...
Rethinking the 9 to 5: Finding Out When Your Body Functions Best at Work
TRANSCRIPT I have been collecting data that is in real-time with actual employees, capturing various aspects of these daily and momentary fluctuations that people have with regard to cognitive...
Letting Our Bodies Do the Office Work for Us
Ï㽶´«Ã½ Assistant Professor of Psychology Mahima Saxena wants people to work smarter—while also taking care of their health and well-being. Her newest topic of research, which secured funding in...
What Are the Politics of Korea and China’s Air Pollution Problem?
TRANSCRIPT This air pollution problem is so severe that every spring people essentially hole up in their homes to avoid the severe—this particulate matter, PM is as it’s called, and this is because...
How Are Puerto Ricans Responding Politically to U.S. Hurricane Cleanup Efforts?
TRANSCRIPT Because of the severe crisis in Puerto Rico, different countries, for example, Venezuela but also other countries, said, we will ship in oil because we understand you have to have that oil...
Is It Ethical for Psychologists to Diagnose Trump Without Having Ever Met Him?
TRANSCRIPT The American Psychiatric Association came up with a rule called the Goldwater Rule, which said that psychiatrists should not diagnose or give other opinions about a person in the public...