Baylor in the News – May 17-23, 2020
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WACO, Texas (May 24, 2020) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in local and national media stories as they shared new Baylor research on a surprising link between chemical compounds found in many consumer products and the onset of obesity and some scientific sleuthing that led to a fascinating discovery. Baylor experts also weighed on several COVID-19 related stories on grief, legal issues with eviction, summer camps and young volunteers.
May 18, 2020
EurekAlert: Chemicals often found in consumer products could lead to obesity and fatty liver diseases
Chemical compounds found in many consumer products could be major contributors to the onset of lipid-related diseases, such as obesity, in humans, according to a Baylor University study led by Ramon Lavado, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science at Baylor.
Ladders: The Brain: Listening to this type of music may improve your work performance
Michael K. Scullin, Ph.D., director of Baylor's Sleep Neuroscience and Cognition Laboratory and assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, is quoted in this article about new Baylor research that found that students who listened to classical music as they slept performed much better on a test the next day.
KWTX-TV: Waco: Salvation Army program to help delay eviction process
VIDEO: Baylor Law professor Bridget Fuselier was interviewed for this story about the eviction process in Texas.
May 19, 2020
Council on Foreign Relations: How the World Has Learned to Grieve in a Pandemic
Baylor grief expert William Hoy, D.Min., is quoted in this article about how pandemic restrictions have forced people to adapt end-of-life rituals.
EurekAlert: Fishing rod 'selfie stick' and scientific sleuthing turn up clues to extinct sea reptile
A Russian paleontologist using a homemade “selfie stick” to study an extinct aquatic reptile on the wall at London’s Natural History Museum turned to Baylor paleontologist Megan L. Jacobs, a doctoral candidate in geosciences, for her expertise on the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs. Together, they made a fascinating discovery.
May 21, 2020
Houston Chronicle: Opinion: Cancel your summer camp plans to keep kids safe
This column by John B. White, Ph.D., faculty director of Baylor’s Faith and Sport Institute, and Tom Krattenmaker, director of communications at Yale Divinity School, protecting kids and the families by canceling summer camps.
KCEN-TV: Baylor receives $75,000 from H-E-B to address food insecurity during pandemic
A $75,000 gift from the H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust will provide staffing support for the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, helping to fund the Emergency Meals-to-You effort over the next six months for children experiencing food insecurity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This news also was covered by KWTX-TV, KXXV-TV, KWKT-TV and the Baptist Standard.
May 22, 2020
Christianity Today: Do Unto the Least of These? There’s a Wait List for That.
Jeremy Everett, executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, is quoted in this article about how churches have long played a critical role in America’s food pantry network, and they now have help of a new wave of volunteers, particularly younger ones who find themselves home from school and work.
Waco Tribune-Herald: A. Christian van Gorder: George Washington meets a viral pandemic
A. Christian van Gorder, Ph.D., associate professor of world religions and Islamic studies at Baylor, writes about past viral epidemics, including one in which the commander in chief of the Continental Army, George Washington, a survivor of the smallpox virus and thus immune, enforced strict quarantines.
Baptist Standard: Baylor prof explores how movies shape attitudes toward race
From “The Birth of a Nation,” the 1915 silent movie some historians blame for a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, to Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” more than 100 years later, movies have reflected and shaped Americans’ attitudes toward race, said Baylor English professor and popular culture observer Greg Garrett, Ph.D.
May 23, 2020
Waco Tribune-Herald: Lynn Tatum: 'Greatest Generation' better understood shared sacrifice in a crisis
In the midst of a pandemic, Lynn Tatum, Ph.D., senior lecturer in Baylor's Honors College, writes about the Greatest Generation, "those steely-spined, self-sacrificing patriots who kept us free and safe. May we honor them by emulating their example."
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