Lecturer Rob Brotherton discusses the psychology of fake news and why we fall for it.
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Anja Benshaul-Tolonen, assistant professor of economics, discusses the results behind her new quantitative study on attitudes toward menstruation and how Barnard students are engaging with the data.
W. B. Worthen, chair of the Department of Theatre, talks about his newest book and the theatre as technology.
Professor Angela Simms discusses the consequences racial inequities have on access to resources.
Belinda Archibong, assistant professor of economics, discusses the findings of her new paper, which reviewed 65 years’ worth of data.
Professor Sandra Goldmark discusses her new book “Fixation” and the importance of building a new model of consumption.
Professor Matthew Lacombe delves into his research on how the NRA builds power.
Dr. Mia Minen ’03 and mentees — Sarah Jinich ’19, Talia Boyers ’20, Jana Jaran ’22 — discuss research and women in STEM.
Professor María de la Paz Fernández’s latest research findings offer a new way for science to better understand the body’s master clock.
Professor Celia E. Naylor explains the history behind Juneteenth (June 19) and how it fits into our current climate.
Professor Daniel Hamermesh shares his newest research on the positive economic impacts of legal marriage.
Professor Xiaobo Lü considers how citizens view the two governments and suggests what leaders can do to improve global connections.
Professor Rajiv Sethi discusses the roadmap to resuming "normal" life and developing pandemic resilience.
Provost Linda Bell and professors Belinda Archibong, Martina Jasova, and Rajiv Sethi explain how stay-at-home orders will impact the economy in the long term.
To help everyone cope with COVID-19 anxiety, assistant professor of psychology Michael G. Wheaton offers some much-needed advice.
Technology promises to help those looking for romance find their match. Adjunct lecturer Skye Cleary explains why the opposite may be true.
Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies professor Rebecca Jordan-Young breaks down the misconception of testosterone as the “male sex hormone” in her new book, Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography.
Lisa Son, associate professor of psychology, gets in her own head about her new book and the metacognitive hurdles she jumped to learn how to write it in Korean.
In this Q&A, Claire Tow Professor of Religion Jack Hawley — unofficially named an honorary citizen of the Braj region of North India earlier this year — discusses his interests in India’s religious and cultural landscape.
In this Break This Down interview, Professor Elizabeth Hutchinson discusses the historical and cultural issues raised in cataloging and exhibiting America’s indigenous cultural treasures.