Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, Emily Mendenhall’s Reflections on Scary Mommy
“What stories will we tell our grandchildren? How will the pandemic look to us in 10, 20, 30 years, or more? How will the pandemic period affect how we relate to each other in the future?”. These are some of the questions that Emily Mendenhall explores in her article “What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, published on Scary Mommy.
Category: Media
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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation
Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the country working on medical and humanitarian aid. She delves into the complexities through which love and liberation get revealed in the everyday work of local humanitarian laborers.
Categories: Media, Past events
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NutrireCoLab Episode 7: Interview with Professor Emily Mendenhall about her New Book Unmasked
Lauren Carruth interviews Emily Mendenhall about how people in her hometown in northwest Iowa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes why people unmasked and how social relations within the community played out over the course of the pandemic. Many people were very cautious, while some people ignored public health recommendations for personal gain.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Who Owns Your Story? Transcending the Trauma Narrative”, Aminatta Forna on The Yale Review
Aminatta Forna examines the ways in which we conflate every difficult experience with trauma, such that suffering and trauma have become interchangeable.
Category: Media
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Fox 5 Covers the New MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing, with Daniel Marchalik
Fox 5 covers the new MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing, featuring Dr. Daniel Marchalik, its executive director, and Crystal Morales, one of its leaders. Fox 5 describes that this local initiative “aims at making sure health care workers tune into their own wellbeing”.
Category: Media
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“The Need for Modernization of Biosecurity in the Post-COVID World”
Dr. James Giordano explores different questions related to biosecurity, when doing research on dangerous pathogens, in the context of the pandemic.
Category: Scholarship
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Stockdale Radio: James Giordano on the Ethics of Brain Science
The third episode of Stockdale Radio three-part series on brain science and technology in relation to military applications.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Words about Mental Health Need to Align with People’s Understanding of Well Being”, Piece Co-Authored by Emily Mendenhall in The Conversation
The authors explain how patient perceptions of health may not always align with medical terms.
Category: Media
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“Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding”, Georgetown College Covers Timothy Newfield’s Research
Georgetown College covers Timothy Newfield’s research, undertaken with an interdisciplinary team, on the Black Death’s impact.
Category: Media
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Stockdale Radio: James Giordano on Weaponizing the Brain
The second episode of Stockdale Radio three-part series on brain science and technology in relation to military applications.
Categories: Media, Past events