In The News

The latest headlines garnered by CLAS faculty and students in the national media.

Connie Mulligan was quoted in a March 13 Associated Press story about recent DNA findings that indicated nearly all Native Americans in North, Central and South America are descended from six women who immigrated around 20,000 years ago. The story ran in numerous newspapers nationwide, including the New York Times and USA Today.

The Multi-object Apache Point Observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey, or MARVELS for short, is the top story on the NASA planetquest website. The project is led by Jian Ge.

John Thompson's win of the Abel Award was the subject of a March 27 Reuters story, which was reprinted by several outlets including Scientific American.

Richard Scher was quoted in a March 31 Wall Street Journal story about the number of felons hoping to regain their voting rights in Florida. A link is not available because the Journal is by subscription only.
Daniel Smith was quoted in a March 29 Reuters story about the potential impact of hot-button ballot questions, such as gay marriage, on this year's presidential election.
Kenneth Wald was quoted in a March 14 Associated Press story about presidential candidate Barack Obama's relationship with Jewish voters.

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