CBSHS in the News Highlights: Spring 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 

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

Social Media and Misinformation

• AP News – Most in U.S. fear Ukraine war 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

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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.