Faculty in the News, Summer 2013

(Many) classes were out, but the media kept the phone calls and emails coming to our faculty this summer. Here's a sampling:

Michael Terns, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is quoted in an MIT news article about genome editing. 

The work of Mark Abbe, professor of ancient art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, is featured in Archeology magazine

“Brown ocean” can fuel inland tropical cyclones – Several reports on a newly-defined type of inland tropical cyclone that maintains or increases strength after landfall, according to NASA-funded research by graduate student Theresa Anderson and geography professor J. Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112899731/inland-tropical-storms-fueled-brown-ocean-071713/

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2013/07/30/new-brown-ocean-effect-could-make-hurricanes-even-stronger-when-they-reach-land

Shepherd was also quoted in a CNN story on the relationship between climate change and violence

“How to deal with self-absorbed people” – UGA psychology professor Keith Campbell, author of “The Narcissism Epidemic,” appears on NBC-TV’s “Today” show

Marine science professor Samantha Joye continues to be quoted extensively on the Hercules well rig natural gas explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

Updated story on the Hercules incidents quotes Joye in the Athens Banner-Herald

Joye also quoted in a story about fracking off the coast of California

History News Network features an article written associate professor of history Stephen Mihm