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Thursday, May 13th, 2021 The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology is very proud to congratulate Dr. Tim Frandy, assistant professor of folk studies, for his selection as the recipient of the 2021 Potter College Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity! A committee of his peers in the college selected Dr. Frandy for this honor in recognition of his exceptional research accomplishments, scholarly output, intellectual breadth, and the broader significance of his work and methods. Since coming to WKU in 2017, Dr. Frandy has maintained an active research agenda in his...

Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D. Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr. SheikhBahaei completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly under NIMH/NINDS – Un...

Carlotta Taddei, PhD  Dr. Carlotta Taddei completed her BSc (2011) in industrial chemistry at Università di Bologna (Bologna, Italy). In 2011 she joined the Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry master course and gained her MSc (2013) jointly from Université Lille 1 (Lille, France) and Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany). She completed her PhD at King’s College London (London, United Kingdom) under the supervision of Prof. Antony D. Gee. Her doctoral research focused on the development of novel conversion methodologies of [ 11C]carbon dioxide to [ 11C]carbon monoxide mediated by fluorid...

But then what happens? >> well, the coverage of climate change has dropped out, because the media is thinking of the climate change as a r story for the science section or the environment section and reports that come out that get reported by the media, and then it drops off of the diet of the average american. >> and so not sustained attention. >> there is not sustained attention it to. >> how do we get there? >> the irony is that the media is reporting stories about climate change everyday. and everyday stories about drought, wildfires, typhoons and hurricanes, about heat, about all sorts of...

Face in trying to tell this story day in and day out? this is your beat. i get to say, you know, some weeks, this happened and becky becky becky stand. you know? but you're just like we're still screwed. it's monday. it's still happening. it's tuesday, it's still happening. >> well, you said as you said at the top there, the phenomenon itself is a very poor fit with the traditional strictures of journalism which require, a, some sort of news happening. and, b, they really want human beings and human conflict involved and these are glaciers and atmospheric concentrations. i'm a dirty blogger so...