Baltimore Sun April 2022 special education edition
Rebecca Adelman, Professor & Chair, Department of Media and Communication Studies
- Is Alex Jones verdict the death of disinformation? Unlikely ABC News, Associated Press (October 17, 2022)
- Seeing Bucha atrocities is turning point for media, viewers ABC News and several additional outlets (April 7, 2022)
Ian Anson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- Professor explains next steps after Biden’s student loan forgiveness program was blocked WBAL (November 11, 2022)
- Voters split on ballot Question K on term limits in Baltimore City WBAL (October 20, 2022)
- Americans think they know a lot about politics—and it’s bad for democracy that they’re so often wrong in their confidence The Conversation (September 2, 2022)
- Trump-endorsed candidates would generally win even without his support – and that’s usually the case with all political endorsements, The Conversation (June 15, 2022).
- Everyone loves to hate the IRS. That’s a problem. The Washington Post (April 22, 2022)
- How Republican leaders could motivate their voters to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, Washington Post (October 11, 2021)
Laura Antkowiak, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
- Anti-abortion pregnancy centers will likely outlast the age of Roe – here’s how they’re funded and the services they provide The Conversation (June 28, 2022)
- #WordinBlack: Is the redistricting process taught thoroughly enough in schools? AFRO (June 9, 2022)
- With no political home, ‘seamless garment Catholics’ still hold ‘paramount importance’ Notre Dame News (March 10, 2022)
Matt Baker, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems; Associate Dean, CAHSS
- High temperatures a preview of Baltimore’s future Baltimore Banner (July 23, 2022)
- Floating wetlands show possibility of Inner Harbor restoration Baltimore (April 25, 2022)
Pamela Bennett, Associate Professor, The School of Public Policy
- “Parenting in Privilege or Peril,” a new book by UMBC’s Pamela R. Bennett, explores barriers to the “American dream” UMBC Magazine (April 26, 2022)
- More states are requiring high schoolers to complete financial aid application Marketplace (February 16, 2022)
Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Syracuse ranked among 50 ‘rattiest’ cities for sixth consecutive year The Daily Orange (October 26,2022)
- 311 calls for rat abatement in Baltimore up in 2021. Experts, exterminators point to same solutions to control rodents. The Baltimore Sun (January 3, 2022)
Nicholas Bonneau, Visiting Lecturer, Department of History
- What can human bones, buried beneath a construction site, teach us about 18th century Philadelphia? WHYY+ (May 5, 2022)
Dana Burr Bradley, Dean of the Erickson School of Aging Studies
- Charted: The decline in US life expectancy Advisory (September 1, 2022)
- U.S. life expectancy down for second-straight year, fueled by COVID-19 Washington Post (August 31, 2022)
- U.S. life expectancy falls for second year The Times (August 31, 2022)
Charissa Cheah, Professor, Department of Psychology
- ‘Turning Red’ is a good conversation starter—and not just for girls New York Times (March 16, 2022)
- Co-presenting a talk at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Racial discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans and mental health, March 29 Illinois State University News (March 1, 2022)
- The “Gentle Parenting” movement; Protecting our kids’ mental health WYPR (February 10, 2022)
- Many Asian Republicans blame Trump, not GOP, for discrimination Politico (October 4, 2021)
- Are America’s schools safe for Asian Americans? The Conversation (April 19, 2021)
- Power Up: No Republicans have yet signed on to a bill targeting Asian hate crimes, Washington Post (April 13, 2021)
- The Mental Health Costs Of ‘Everyday’ Racism, NPR’s Science Friday (March 26, 2021)
- More Than 3,700 Cases Of Anti-Asian Harassment And Assaults Reported Under The Pandemic, WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio and WOSU Columbus (March 23, 2021)
- Amid attacks, Asian Americans challenge traditions that discourage speaking out, seeking therapy, Washington Post (March 22, 2021)
- Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans, Testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (March 18, 2021)
- Anti-Asian attacks rise along with online vitriol, Washington Post (March 17, 2021)
Lauren A. Clay, Associate Professor and Chair, Emergency Health Services
- Tackling food insecurity in disasters: UMBC’s Lauren Clay develops a new model through $520K NSF CAREER award UMBC News (October 26, 2022)
- Diaper need emerges as health indicator during pandemic, The Conversation (April 28, 2022)
Dennis Coates, Professor, Department of Economics
- Pro leagues’ market power yields different winners in U.S., Europe Sportico (August 31, 2022)
- An Arlington Heights poll says yes to Bears, no to subsidizing them. The Bears should listen. Chicago Tribune (August 30, 2022)
- How Russell Wilson’s arrival made the Denver Broncos one of the NFL’s toughest tickets The Athletic (June 21, 2022)
- Maryland Stadium Authority pitching $1.2 billion plan to keep Orioles, Ravens in their Baltimore stadiums for years The Baltimore Sun (February 3, 2022)
- Maryland is eager to accommodate Orioles as stadium lease talks continue past original deadline The Baltimore Sun (January 10, 2022)
- NFL’s analytics cynics should study this economist Sportico (January 5, 2022)
Sunil Dasgupta, Program Director at Shady Grove, Department of Political Science
- What Maryland could look like under Gov. Wes Moore, according to political experts NBC Washington (November 9, 2022)
- Legalizing weed and other Maryland ballot questions: What you need to know before you vote Herald-Mail Media (September 14, 2022)
- Does Montgomery County’s ballot-counting system need to be fixed? Bethesda Magazine (August 11, 2022)
- Early voting turnout lower than in prior election cycles, but mail-in ballots could play bigger role Bethesda Magazine (July 15, 2022)
- Fixer-upper: How to repair America’s broken housing systems Washington Independent (June 3, 2022)
Kate Drabinski, Principal Lecturer, Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality studies
- A safe space: Seniors discuss embracing LGBTQ+ loved ones The Baltimore Banner (October 12, 2022)
Erle Ellis, Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Bogs, lakebeds, and sea floors compete to become Anthropocene’s ‘golden spike’ Science (May 5, 2022)
- We have a lot to learn from Indigenous people’s oyster-shucking practices Popular Science (May 4, 2022)
- Op-Ed: Is humanity doomed? That depends on us LA Times (March 28, 2022)
- How “Wilderness” was invented without Indigenous peoples Sapiens & Wired Science (February 3, 2022)
- Anthropocene: Geologists will choose birthplace of a new epoch this year New Scientist (January 25, 2022)
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A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is included in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s 10 Popular scientific discoveries from 2021 Smithsonian Magazine (December 28, 2021)
- The environmental movement gets one existential fact wrong about nature Inverse (December 11, 2021)
Matthew Fagan, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Who decides on ‘priorities’ for ecosystem restoration? Mongabay (November 2, 2022)
- Beyond ‘plant trees!’: Research finds tree plantations encroaching on essential ecosystems, Science Daily (June 6, 2022)
Eric Ford, Director of The Choice Program, UMBC’s Shriver Center
- Reentering Maryland society after decades in prison can be difficult. These programs attempt to help Baltimore Sun, Yahoo! News (November 7, 2022)
Amy Froide, Professor and Chair of the Department of History
- Queen Elizabeth II’s death reverberates across Baltimore, a city that played a role in her accession to the throne Baltimore Banner (September 8, 2022).
Brian Grodsky, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science
- Dr. Grodsky discusses the war in Ukraine with Jason Newton, WBAL News (October 23, 2022)
- Abortion rights falter as democracy slides Bloomberg Opinion (May 5, 2022)
- These are the companies that have pulled out of Russia since its invasion of Ukraine CBS News (March 10, 2022)
- Economic sanctions may deal fatal blow to Russia’s already-weak domestic opposition The Conversation (March 4, 2022)
Jeff Halverson, Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Nicole to race by D.C. region Friday, with rain and possibly tornadoes Washington Post (November 10, 2022)
- Hurricane Ian spawned a nor’easter that’s flooding the Mid-Atlantic coast The Washington Post (October 3, 2022)
- 20 years after La Plata disaster, D.C. area’s tornado risk has grown The Washington Post (April 27, 2022)
- Saturday’s big East Coast storm: What it could mean for D.C. area Washington Post (March 9, 2022)
Loren Henderson, Associate Professor, The School of Public Policy
- Broken windows theory: Race and disorder WEAA (June 9, 2022)
- Today with Dr. Kaye: Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights WEAA (May 3, 2022)
- I’m a Black sociologist, and a mom – by listening to other Black mothers, I’ve learned about their pandemic struggles and strengths The Conversation (April 29, 2022)
- ‘Crushed and unheard’: Controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill signed by Florida governor Today with Dr. Kaye – WEAA (March 30, 2022)
Morgan Henderson, Principal Data Scientist, Hilltop Institute; affiliate faculty, Department of Economics
- Healthcare Upside/Down: Pricing impacting financially vulnerable populations with Henderson and Mouslim HealthcareNOW (November 9, 2022)
- It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug NPR (October 26, 2022)
- Which Houston hospitals are most expensive? Some prices compared at Methodist, Hermann, St. Lukes. Houston Chronicle (October 18, 2022)
- The Hilltop Institute at UMBC to launch hospital price transparency research with $282,000 NSF grant State of Reform, (September 21, 2022)
- The Hilltop Institute at UMBC revolutionizes data analytics to advance health and wellbeing UMBC Magazine (August 31, 2022)
- Hospital price data reveals wide variation in facility fees Modern Healthcare (July 11, 2022)
- Fines kicking in after slow start to hospital transparency rule Modern Healthcare (June 9, 2022)
- What Price Transparency in Healthcare is Already Showing Us HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network; The Incrementalist (January 22, 2022)
- How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop The Conversation (September 17, 2021)
- Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why New York Times (August 22, 2021)
- How to Look Up Prices at Your Hospital, if They Exist New York Times (August 22, 2021)
- Two-thirds of largest hospitals aren’t complying with price transparency rule Modern Healthcare (March 16, 2021)
Nicole King, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies
- Red Emma’s cements radical legacy with move to ‘forever home’ Baltimore Banner (November 1, 2022)
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How a developer’s re-imagining of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is getting a $67.5 million boost from state taxpayers Baltimore Sun (October 6, 2022)
- “Preservation for the People: The Fight for Development Without Displacement” Thursday, September 29, at the MICA Brown Center.
Baltimore Government and community events 9/21/22-10/5/22 Baltimore Beat (September 20, 2022) - Sonia Eaddy wins decadeslong fight to save her home in Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood: ‘This victory is for us — all of us’ Baltimore Sun (July 19, 2022)
- Victory for Poppleton: The Eaddys can stay, the Sarah Ann houses will be saved and rehabbed Baltimore Brew (July 18, 2022)
- A new group wants to slash Baltimore’s property taxes in the name of equity. City Hall calls it ‘absurd.’ Baltimore Sun (June 23, 2022)
- Bridging the gap: Sarah Ann street WMAR (February 17, 2022)
Douglas Lamdin, Associate Chair, Department of Economics
- Commentary: You know you should have a will, but do you know why? The Baltimore Sun (December 27, 2021)
- Lessons for and from COVID‐19 for investors and their advisors, Financial Planning Review (February 1, 2021)
Jane Lincove, Professor, The School of Public Policy
- ‘It’s just not enough’: Nearly 25 years later, UT’s auto admit rule struggles to diversify The Daily Texan (November 29, 2022)
Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies
- Radio pirates WYPR’s Wavelength: Baltimore’s Public Radio Journey podcast (May 25, 2022)
Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
- The Martinican bèlè dance – a celebration of land, spirit and liberation The Conversation (May 20, 2022)
Dillon Mahmoudi, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
- Is Baltimore’s water safe to drink? Here’s the latest on what residents need to know Baltimore Banner (September 9, 2022)
Christine Mallinson, Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture
- Don’t tell me my accent doesn’t exist Salon (September 2, 2022)
- Can you catch a deepfake? UMBC researchers receive NSF award to help people identify audio deepfakes (with Vandana Janeja) UMBC Magazine (May 9, 2022)
- Italian court rules naming children after men alone is unconstitutional The World (May 4, 2022)
- How did the Baltimore accent happen? WYPR (February 7, 2022)
- A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge The Atlantic (October 27, 2021)
- Why your family’s secret language is good for kids National Geographic (October 18, 2021)
Zoë McLaren, Associate Professor, The School of Public Policy
- Why don’t Americans have at-home flu tests? African News Herald (November 25, 2022)
- Why doesn’t the U.S. have at-home flu tests? STAT (November 22, 2022)
- The coronavirus has infected more than half of Americans, the C.D.C. reports The New York Times (April 26, 2022)
- Mayor Scott is expected to discuss masking with city health commissioner soon Fox Baltimore (February 22, 2022)
- With mask restrictions set to lift, a haze of uncertainty lingers New York Times, Boston Globe, and NYC Daily Post (February 8, 2022)
- US begins offering 1B free Covid-19, but many more needed Business Standard and many more (January 20, 2022)
- As state ignores at-home COVID test data, boards of health come up with their own solutions WGBH (January 12, 2022)
- Biden to expand access to at-home COVID kits: 4 essential reads on the critical role of rapid tests The Conversation (December 22, 2021)
- CDC supports ‘test-to-stay’ for COVID-exposed students Medscape, WebMD (December 21, 2021)
- Los CDC respaldan una estrategia de ‘detección y permanencia’ en la escuela, HealthDay (December 21, 2021)
- Two years later: Why aren’t there enough COVID tests?, Left Voice (December 20, 2021)
- The Biden administration won’t require insurance companies to pay people back for COVID tests bought ahead of the holidays, Business Insider Australia (December 20, 2021)
- CDC says unvaccinated students exposed to virus can ‘test and stay’, New York Times and many more (December 20, 2021)
- Exponential growth may explain why Omicron cases are skyrocketing in parts of the U.S., Business Insider and many more (December 20, 2021)
- Affordable coronavirus tests are out there, if you look, New York Times, The NYC Daily Post, Money RF (December 17, 2021)
- Rapid COVID tests in Boston are in short supply WGBH (December 8, 2021)
- Where Are the Tests?, The New York Times (September 21, 2021), additional coverage in The Baltimore Sun (September 21, 2021)
- Los vacunados con J&J enfrentan un dilemma, The New York Times en Español (September 13, 2021), English version – The J.&J. Conundrum, The New York Times (September 13, 2021)
- The FDA Is Endangering America’s Children, National Review (September 4, 2021)
Andy Miller, Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
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UMBC to co-lead new Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative with $2.3M grant UMBC News (October 4, 2022)
Katherine Morris, Program Director, Shady Grove
- How to become a social worker MSW Online (July 29, 2022)
Morgane Mouslim, Policy Analyst, Hilltop Institute
- Healthcare Upside/Down: Pricing impacting financially vulnerable populations with Henderson and Mouslim HealthcareNOW (November 9, 2022)
- The Hilltop Institute at UMBC to launch hospital price transparency research with $282,000 NSF grant State of Reform, (September 21, 2022)
- The Hilltop Institute at UMBC revolutionizes data analytics to advance health and wellbeing UMBC Magazine (August 31, 2022)
- Hospital price data reveals wide variation in facility fees Modern Healthcare (July 11, 2022)
- Fines kicking in after slow start to hospital transparency rule Modern Healthcare (June 9, 2022)
- What Price Transparency in Healthcare is Already Showing Us HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network; The Incrementalist (January 22, 2022)
- How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop The Conversation (September 17, 2021)
- Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why New York Times (August 22, 2021)
- How to Look Up Prices at Your Hospital, if They Exist New York Times (August 22, 2021)
- Two-thirds of largest hospitals aren’t complying with price transparency rule Modern Healthcare (March 16, 2021)
Christopher Murphy, Professor, Department of Psychology
- Yelling at children (verbal abuse) HealthDay (June 11, 2022)
Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor, Department of History
- Who should write the Post’s D.C. editorials now? Washington City Paper (November 16, 2022)
- D.C. elected its own mayors in the 1800s—until Congress stepped in Washington Post (June 21, 2022)
- 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows recipient Carnegie Corporation of New York (April 26, 2022)
- New Carnegie Fellow Derek Musgrove examines Black political movements in the U.S., 1980 – 1997 UMBC Magazine (April 26, 2022)
- 5 factors that led to the decline of the original Black Panther Party The Moguldom Nation (March 30, 2022)
- As Bowser seeks a third term as D.C. mayor, her sharpest critic isn’t on the ballot The Washington Post (March 1, 2022)
Nkiru Nnawulezi, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Nkiru Nnawulezi and D.C. community partners make the case for survivor-centered housing services UMBC News (August 25, 2022)
- How the mainstream movement against gender-based violence fails Black workers and survivors Mother Jones (March 1, 2022)
Don Norris, Professor Emeritus, The School of Public Policy
- Before Portland lost $1.4 million in cyber breach, city treasurer raised red flag OPB (August 22, 2022)
Fred L. Pincus, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health
- Battles over book bans reflect conflicts from the 1980s The Conversation (March 7, 2022)
John Rennie Short, Professor, The School of Public Policy
- Cities after COVID The Philosophers’ Magazine (October 12, 2022)
- Race, class and traffic deaths The New York Times (August 23, 2022)
- Deadliest Cities for Pedestrians MoneyGeek (August 9, 2022)
- 2022’s Most expensive metro areas to rent Lawn Love (August 8, 2022)
- The future of the city: Has its death after COVID been greatly exaggerated? CQ Researcher (June 3, 2022)
- Deaths and injuries in road crashes are a ‘silent epidemic on wheels’ The Conversation (May 31, 2022)
- Settler colonialism helps explain current events in Xinjiang and Ukraine—and the history of Australia and US, too The Conversation, Times-Union (March 14, 2022)
- Tiny Olympic flame shines light on Beijing claim that this will be ‘greenest Games’ ever South China Morning Post (February 10,2022)
- For moral and practical reasons, the Olympics need a permanent home Toronto Star and more (January 3, 2022)
Sally Scott, Professor of Practice, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
- These 52 execs were picked for Leadership Maryland’s class of 2022 Technical.ly (February 15, 2022)
Sally Scott, Professor of Practice, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health and Joby Taylor, director of the Shriver Center
- UMBC professors’ paper offers recommendations for future of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor WBAL (January 13, 2022)
Eric Stokan, Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Baltimore’s guaranteed income program aims to lift young parents out of poverty: ‘I have real-life bills’ Baltimore Sun (November 2022)
Chris Swan, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems
- UMBC’s Chris Swan awarded NSF funding for U.S.-Brazil partnership on stream biodiversity UMBC Magazine (August 29, 2022)
Chris Tong, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
- Turning the Tides UMBC Magazine (July 14, 2022)
Lucy Wilson, Professor, Department of Emergency Health Services
- How Often Should We Be Cleaning Our Coats During The COVID-19 Pandemic? Huffington Post (February 9, 2021)
Takashi Yamashita, Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health; Gerontology
Patricia Young, Professor, Department of Education
- Patricia Young’s new book explores emerging ed-tech trends and how COVID has changed the future of the field, UMBC News (September 22, 2021)
Noor Zaidi, Assistant Professor, Department of History
- From caravans to markets, the hajj pilgrimage has always included a commercial component The Conversation (July 6, 2022)
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