Faculty in the media is a showcase of some of the work members of the RPI faculty have been recognized for in various news media outlets.
Nancy Campbell continues to be a leading expert in a wide range of outlets for her expertise on opioids. She was featured in a segment on the local ABC News affiliate on National Overdose Day on Aug 31 and closed the month of September with a Dose of Reality segment on the local CBS affiliate. She promoted her book on the MIT Press Podcast and an interview she did about isolation and opioids during the pandemic with a small, niche website got picked up and syndicated across the country ending up in outlets as far-reaching as The Nation and Salon.
The pandemic's impact on the opioid epidemic
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1: Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone
Why Drug Overdoses Have Gone Up During the Pandemic
Isolation and opioids during the pandemic
June Deery was interviewed for her expertise on modern media in an article about the hit show 90 Day Fiance in Marie Claire magazine.
Susan Smith was wonderfully accessible when she quickly made herself available for an interview request from a reporter at Spectrum News who was doing a story about Rensselaer professors using the pandemic as a teachable moment. Smith was featured in a segment with Juergen Hahn from the biomedical engineering department in a cross-disciplinary representation of how faculty across the school are incorporating COVID-19 into their coursework.
RPI professors using pandemic as a teachable moment
Alicia Walf has really become a go-to expert for so many interesting topics on the brain and cognition. She was the lead expert in an article in Forbes that explored the fact that boredom may be good for your brain. Walf was also featured on the NBC News website, Today.com, in a post that looked at how humans are possibly becoming desensitized to mass death because of COVID-19. This was picked up and republished on a widely-read, general interest platform, Yahoo.com. Additionally, Walf was chosen to be an expert on the news content site, Newspoint360. Her video interview will be accessible for reporters looking for experts via the site’s Youtube channel.
Why neuroscientists say boredom is good for your brains
Why it's hard for us to fathom the COVID-19 death toll -Today
Why it's hard for us to fathom the COVID-19 death toll - Yahoo
Dr. Alicia Walf on the Science of Boredom and Your Brain - YouTube
The new Health Economics and Biotech degree announcement was picked up by the New York Ag Connection website, a small outlet but still worth noting.
Health Economics and Biotech degree announcement
Nathan Meltz was featured in an article in the Albany Times Union about his conceptual music creations.
Machine-Revival goes for the big conceptual
The announcement of The Constellation Prize, a new engineering prize created in part by Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, along with Daniel Lander from the School of Engineering, was published on the website HPAC Engineering.
RPI launches new prize to reimagine engineering
And last, but certainly not least, Maurice Suckling’s interview with a leading board game website about his third published board game, Hidden Strike: American Revolution, was posted on The Players’ Aid.
There were no press releases this month from HASS but I had the honor of crafting two posts for the news blog, The Approach, that announced the achievements of two doctoral students, Jamie Steele and Jude Abu Zaineh.
Jamie Steele Recognized for Research on Gender and Artificial Intelligence
Jude Abu Zaineh Wins Prestigious Canadian Arts Prize for Emerging Artists