CBSHS in the News Highlights: Spring 2022

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June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences (CBSHS) faculty have been expert sources for media stories on a variety of topics such as mental health, current events, virtual reality, public health and more.

“The breadth of expertise and topics our faculty share demonstrates the interconnectedness of our seven departments and the countless aspects of our community that we influence,” said CBSHS Dean Leslie Hossfeld. “This is one of many ways our college works to serve the needs of people and communities across the state and beyond.”

See below for a recap of some of the local, regional and national news stories appearing this spring that featured our acclaimed experts and programs.

Clemson Academics and Outreach

ABC15 News – South Carolina Governor joins the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism for awards ceremony
Atlantic Ride – 17 best nursing schools in USA for a two-year accelerated degree nursing program
GSA Business Report – Clemson awarded $3.2M to develop blood test for Alzheimer’s
UnDark – How radar is helping track down lost Indigenous grave sites | Featuring Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice assistant professor David Markus

COVID-19

CNN – People believe their friends will protect them from COVID – but the opposite is true | Featuring Department of Psychology assistant professor Kaileigh Byrne
EurekAlert – Roadmap for rolling out COVID-19 risk mitigation initiatives at educational institutions | Featuring Clemson Rural Health director Ronald Gimbel and Department of Public Health Sciences associate professor Kathleen Cartmell

Current Events and History

DW – War in Ukraine: How do people drum up courage? | Featuring psychology professor Cynthia Pury
The Guardian – From ‘tribes’ to ‘powwows’: summer camps finally reckon with abuse of Indigenous traditions | Featuring Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management (PRTM) assistant professor Ryan Gagnon
Political Violence at a Glance – Putin’s aspiration to control reality | Co-authored by sociology assistant professor Thomas Mar

Economy

Upstate Business Journal – Economic cycles: Bikes pump more than millions into local economy | Featuring Bob Brookover, PRTM lecturer
Vox – The awful American consumer | Featuring psychology professor Robin Kowalski

Family and Education

BBC – The Nordic way to stop bullying | Featuring psychology named professor Susan Limber
BBC – The ‘time poverty’ that robs parents of success | Featuring PRTM assistant professor Iryna Sharaievska
The Irish Times – School shooters: why do they do it? | Featuring psychology professor Robin Kowalski
Then 24 – Anti-Bullying Day: The innovative and successful Nordic method to end bullying | Featuring psychology named professor Susan Limber

Mental Health

Grist – Inside the race to digitally capture the world’s most fragile ecosystems – for science, and for the rest of us | Featuring PRTM assistant professor Matthew Browning
MoneyGeek – How debt and financial stress affect your mental health and ways to cope | Featuring psychology professor Bob Sinclair
Prevention Magazine – Find a more joyful you with our 14-day happiness challenge | Featuring psychology professor Robin Kowalski
Teller Report – Bullying…Effects and consequences that may extend from childhood to beyond | Featuring psychology named professor Susan Limber
Time – Why doctors are prescribing nature walks | Featuring PRTM professor Matthew Browning

Public Health

AARP – Disrupting health disparities in South Carolina | Featuring psychology research professor Cheryl Dye
Enterprise Apps Today – 18 causes of video conferencing fatigue | Featuring psychology associate professor Marissa Shuffler
Mirage – Neighborhood trees may protect against high medical costs, poor health | Featuring PRTM assistant professor Matthew Browning
Newsweek – Monkeypox 21-day quarantine backlash spreads before mandates even begin |Featuring psychology professor Thomas Britt

AP News – Most in U.S. fear Ukraine w ar misinformation: AP-NORC poll | Featuring Department of Communication associate professor Darren Linvill
Rolling Stone – China’s propaganda machine gears up from Putin – and blames America for the invasion | Featuring Linvill
The Conversation – In order to be saved from misinformation we need to be exposed to it | Featuring Spot the Troll Quiz
Transitions – Prove it’s not a fake | Featuring the Clemson University Media Forensics Hub
The Washington Post – Russia’s becoming more digitally isolated | Featuring Linvill

Established in 2016, the Clemson University College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences is a 21st-century, land-grant college that combines work in seven schools and departments – Communication; Nursing; Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management; Political Science; Psychology; Public Health Sciences; and Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice – to further its mission in “building people and communities” in South Carolina and beyond.

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