TCUS + A&S
Our continued partnership with The Conversation provides our faculty with opportunities to share their research and creative activity expertise and inform public debate through responsible, ethical, and relevant evidence-based journalism.
During the 2022-23 academic year, faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences published the following articles on The Conversation.
50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts
Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor of Art
Why does nature create patterns? A physicist explains the molecular-level processes behind crystals, stripes and basalt columns
Maxim Lavrentovich, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Biophysics
Tigray has resisted Ethiopia’s far greater military might for two years – here’s why neither side is giving in
Asafa Jalata, Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies
How a 2013 US Supreme Court ruling enabled states to enact election laws without federal approval
Derek Alderman, Professor of Geography
Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by digging deeper
Kimberly Sheldon, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Japan’s Laughing Buddha Hotei is merging into Santa Claus – both are roly-poly sacred figures with a bag of gifts
Megan Bryson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Innovative products lead to a boom in imitation and often a bust – just look at Atari and Bitcoin
Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology
On New Year’s Day, Buddhist god Hotei brings gifts and good fortune in Japan
Megan Bryson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
This lunar year will be the Year of the Rabbit or the Year of the Cat, depending on where you live
Megan Bryson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Chickadees, titmice and nuthatches flocking together benefit from a diversity bonus – so do other animals, including humans
Todd Freeberg, Professor of Psychology
Curious Kids Series: How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as the Sun’s surface for billions of years?
Shichun Huang, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Turkey’s historic city of Antakya, known in Roman and medieval times as Antioch, has been flattened by powerful earthquakes in the past – and rebuilt itself
Christine Shepardson, Professor of Religious Studies
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science – a short history of where medical schools get cadavers
Susan Lawrence, Professor of History
Curious Kids Series: Will the Earth last forever?
Shichun Huang, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
The US is about to blow up a fake warship in the South China Sea – but naval rivalry with Beijing is very real and growing
Krista Wiegand, Professor of Political Science
How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes
Qiusheng Wu, Assistant Professor of Geography and Sustainability
