Wes in the News

Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, is quoted in a New York Times piece on Obama Administration’s assessment of costs versus benefits of climate change action – or inaction. Yohe is also quoted in a USA Today story saying that most economists recognize that humans are to blame for global warming and that inherent risks increase if it is not addressed.

In USA Today, Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, discusses the dynamic between President Obama and Afghan forces commander General McChrystal regarding adjusting troop levels.

Lisa Dombroski, associate professor of film studies, comments in USA Today on the new film Jennifer’s Body, a horror film with a snarky side that has the genre-inverting set-up of men as the victims and a woman who is the feared yet extremely attractive “monster.”

Geoffrey Ginsburg ‘78 is part of a team that has developed a genetic test for influenza that identifies infection before symptoms can even arise. The advance, reported in USA Today, could offer tremendous opportunities for early treatment of flu and the potential  reduce the number of people who come down with the illness as save lives.

Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics and a lead member of the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said in an article in USA Today that impoverished people, especially in underdeveloped nations, will be the hardest hit from global climate change.

Jeanine Basinger, Chair and Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, comments in USA Today on whether Frank Capra used the upstate New York town as a model for Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life.