COVID-19: H&S faculty in the news
As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, faculty in the School of Humanities and Sciences are providing insights into the latest developments. From biology and chemistry to economics, history, political science, and more, H&S faculty are working to help solve, understand, and explain the COVID-19 crisis.
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July
July 30, 2020 | As COVID has become a red-state problem, too, have attitudes changed? | Matthew Gentzkow (Economics) | New York Times
July 30, 2020 | What is Eid al-Adha? Islamic festival of sacrifice will be impacted by coronavirus pandemic | Anna Bigelow (Religious Studies) | USA Today
July 27, 2020 | Our research shows what to do now to maximize election turnout and voter health amid COVID | Andrew Hall (Political Science) | USA Today
July 25, 2020 | California requires masks, but not everyone wears one. Here’s how to fix that | Jon Krosnick (Communication and Political Science) | San Francisco Chronicle
July 22, 2020 | Beyond Zoom plays: The future of theater in the age of coronavirus | Young Jean Lee (Theater and Performance Studies) | San Francisco Chronicle
July 21, 2020 | New 'pooled' COVID-19 testing could expand access | David Donoho (Statistics) | Palo Alto Online
July 20, 2020 | Stanford epidemiologist discusses COVID-19 death rate, herd immunity, mutation | Erin Mordecai (Biology) | KUAF
July 13, 2020 | Nannies wanted: Covid-19 antibodies preferred | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | New York Times
July 9, 2020 | Jobless claims mount in California and the nation; economy is in a ‘holding pattern until we find a vaccine’ | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | San Francisco Chronicle
July 6, 2020 | Why the COVID-19 financial crisis will leave lasting scars on Gen Z | David Grusky (Sociology) | Guardian
July 5, 2020 | How did we get here? California struggling to stay on top of pandemic | Erin Mordecai (Biology) | San Francisco Chronicle
July 5, 2020 | The pandemic has people reexamining their lives. Some don't like what they're seeing | Laura Carstensen (Psychology) | Boston Globe
July 3, 2020 | Some jobs are coming back, but economy will need years to heal | Robert Hall (Economics) | Washington Post
June
June 30, 2020 | Stanford psychologist shares how to smile in a masked, COVID-19 world | Jeanne Tsai (Psychology) | Stanford Report
June 30, 2020 | Stanford physicists call for greater global scientific cooperation in fight against COVID-19 | Peter Michelson (Physics) | Stanford Report
June 27, 2020 | How the world missed COVID-19’s silent spread | Steven Chu (Physics) | New York Times
June 26, 2020 | Post-pandemic, should we keep working from home? | Nicholas Bloom | WHYY (PBS)
June 25, 2020 | Stanford students study the stories behind medical breakthroughs | S. Lochlann Jain (Anthropology) | Stanford Report
June 25, 2020 | Coronavirus is a crisis. Might it also narrow inequality? | Walter Scheidel (History and Classics) | New York Times
June 23, 2020 | You could use a hug. Here are some safe options | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | Los Angeles Times
June 19, 2020 | Covid-19 immunity tests are dangerous territory for employers | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | Bloomberg
June 18, 2020 | The great reopening debate | Walter Scheidel (History and Classics) | Chronicle of Higher Education
June 17, 2020 | How to make government trustworthy again | Margaret Levi (Political Science) | Wired
June 17, 2020 | For many, home offices are the primary workspace | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Boston Globe
June 17, 2020 | How the coronavirus crisis is opening the door to universal social policies in the U.S. | Greg Walton (Psychology) | Time
June 15, 2020 | ‘How would I lecture with a mask on?’ Bay Area professors weigh risk of returning to classroom | Tom Wasow (Linguistics) | San Francisco Chronicle
June 11, 2020 | Who we are depends on where we are, according to Stanford co-authored research | Gabriella Harari (Communication) | Stanford Report
June 11, 2020 | The millennial mental-health crisis | David Grusky (Sociology), Mark Duggan (Economics) | Atlantic
June 10, 2020 | ‘Are you immune?’ The new class system that could shape the Covid-19 world | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | Guardian
June 9, 2020 | 5 rules to live by during a pandemic | Johannes Eichstaedt (Psychology) | New York Times
June 8, 2020 | Data show Bay Area residents challenged the limits of shelter-in-place orders | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | San Jose Mercury News
June 4, 2020 | How to hug during a pandemic | Johannes Eichstaedt (Psychology) | New York Times
June 4, 2020 | The pandemic is testing the generosity of America’s billionaires. A Washington Post survey of the 50 richest Americans looks at who has given and who hasn’t | Robert Reich (Political Science) | Washington Post
June 1, 2020 | How the trauma of the pandemic can inspire personal growth | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Washington Post
May
May 31, 2020 | Coronavirus brought economic catastrophe. Here are 10 experts on how to recover | Anat Admati (Economics) | Los Angeles Times
May 28, 2020 | How to cope with the Zoom boom | Janice Ross (TAPS) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 27, 2020 | Santa Clara County health officer: State allowing some large gatherings could lead to superspreading | Erin Mordecai (Biology) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 27, 2020 | Some countries have brought new cases down to nearly zero. How did they do it? | Gi-Wook Shin (Sociology) | NPR
May 26, 2020 | Can America’s middle class be saved from a new depression? | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | New York Times
May 26, 2020 | How to be closer with teammates when you're miles apart | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Forbes
May 25, 2020 | The coronavirus is deadliest where democrats live | Matthew Gentzkow (Economics) | New York Times
May 25, 2020 | How will we remember the pandemic? Museums are already deciding | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | New York Times
May 21, 2020 | A Bay Area without smiles: Coronavirus masks are taking away our most vital form of nonverbal communication | Jeanne Tsai (Psychology) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 20, 2020 | Stanford virtual conference will focus on ways AI can aid COVID-19 recovery | Rob Reich (Political Science) | Stanford Report
May 19, 2020 | 'Age is a sloppy proxy': Older adults push back on idea that staying safe from coronavirus means staying isolated | Laura Carstensen (Psychology) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 18, 2020 | 'Sports can't become the next nursing homes' as California restart approaches | Roger Noll (Economics, emeritus) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 17, 2020 | Coronavirus: How we decide the risks we’re willing to take to venture out | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | Mercury News
May 14, 2020 | Future of women’s sports uncertain after the coronavirus halted momentum | Roger Noll (Economics, emeritus) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2020 | The unthinkable became reality — now we need radical solutions | Walter Scheidel (History, Classics) | Bloomberg
May 13, 2020 | Working from home during the coronavirus pandemic: How to cope | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | USA Today
May 12, 2020 | Sports is plotting a return. The stakes are huge | Roger Noll (Economics, emeritus) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 12, 2020 | For Renaissance Italians, combating black plague was as much about politics as it was science | Paula Findlen (History) | Stanford Report
May 10, 2020 | Can you catch coronavirus swimming? What about 5G? Debunking bizarre myths | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 9, 2020 | Is the pandemic driving you toward childhood obsessions? You’re not alone | Jeanne Tsai (Psychology) | Datebook
May 8, 2020 | Bay Area braces for fallout as nation’s unemployment skyrockets to historic 14.7% | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | San Francisco Chronicle
May 8, 2020 | White-collar companies race to be last to return to the office | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | New York Times
May 8, 2020 | Soaring joblessness could shake U.S. economy, politics for years | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | Washington Post
May 7, 2020 | Stanford statisticians work on different fronts to help understand and find solutions in the battle against COVID-19 | Julia Palacios (Statistics) | Stanford Humanities and Sciences
May 7, 2020 | Stanford statisticians: Exploring uncertainty | Susan Holmes and Claire Donnat (Statistics) | Stanford Humanities and Sciences
May 7, 2020 | Stanford statisticians: Finding new treatments | Tze Lai (Statistics) | Stanford Humanities and Sciences
May 6, 2020 | A lesson from history: How the yellow fever epidemic changed society | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | Palo Alto Online
May 6, 2020 | Civil strife may undermine pandemic response | Mikael Wolfe (History) | Washington Post
May 5, 2020 | Can COVID-19 stress have an impact on pregnancy? | Petra Persson (Economics) | Psychology Today
May 4, 2020 | Work from home is here to stay | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Atlantic
May 4, 2020 | Coronavirus made telework necessary. Now Santa Clara County wants to explore ways to keep it | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Mercury News
May 4, 2020 | In the race for a coronavirus vaccine, we must go big. Really, really big. | Susan Athey (Economics) | New York Times
May 1, 2020 | Scholars’ plea: U.S. and China, work together on the pandemic | Matthew Kohrman (Anthropology) | New York Times
April
April 30, 2020 | New work-life reality raises equity and inclusion concerns | Shelley Correll (Sociology) | Stanford Report
April 30, 2020 | Stanford biologists transfer specialized skills to COVID-19 testing | Paul Bump (PhD student, Biology), Brendan Cornwell (Hopkins Marine Station) | Stanford Humanities and Sciences
April 30, 2020 | Remote work is here to stay. But what does that mean for productivity -- and mental health? | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Newsweek
April 29, 2020 | The COVID-19 crisis shows how dangerous misinformation becomes infectious | Robert Proctor (History) | Los Angeles Times
April 29, 2020 | The Great Depression demonstrated the indispensable role of government | David Kennedy (History) | Stanford Report
April 28, 2020 | Why remote work sucks, according to science | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | NPR
April 28, 2020 | Economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis will need a balancing act | Michael Boskin (Economics) | The Guardian
April 28, 2020 | How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | The Guardian
April 27, 2020 | In case of emergency, be kind | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Stanford Magazine
April 25, 2020 | Will a pandemic shatter the perception of American exceptionalism? | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | New York Times
April 24, 2020 | 'I don't need this right now': States may have coronavirus reopening plans, but Americans are still wary | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | USA Today
April 23, 2020 | What's 'Zoom fatigue'? Here's why video calls can be so exhausting | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | USA Today
April 21, 2020 | Stanford research reveals reasons why job applicants get screened out of the hiring process | David Pedulla (Sociology) | Stanford Report
April 21, 2020 | Back to work? Companies finding it easier said than done | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Chicago Tribune
April 21, 2020 | Fighting coronavirus feels like fighting a war. That might bring us together | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Wall Street Journal
April 19, 2020 | How the coronavirus might reduce income inequality | Walter Scheidel (History) | Wall Street Journal
April 17, 2020 | In Antebellum New Orleans, immunity from yellow fever was a form of privilege. Could that happen with COVID-19? | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | NPR
April 17, 2020 | Column: Gun-toting Republicans ignoring quarantine orders? Yes, even coronavirus has become part of the culture wars | Matthew Gentzkow (Economics) | Los Angeles Times
April 16, 2020 | Is it ethically okay to get food delivered right now? | Debra Satz (Philosophy) | Atlantic
April 16, 2020 | Simple cues can make people feel connected, even while being physically apart | Greg Walton (Psychology) | Stanford Report
April 15, 2020 | From balcony concerts to cyber drinks — The power of ritual in the corona age | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | Financial Times
April 15, 2020 | With confidence shattered, the road to a 'normal' U.S. economy looks long | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Reuters
April 15, 2020 | How do political beliefs impact the response to coronavirus? | Matthew Gentzkow (Economics) | CNN
April 15, 2020 | 'Coronavirus culture war'? Shedding light on the role of political beliefs in social distancing | Matthew Gentzkow (Economics) | SIEPR
April 14, 2020 | Work and a desire to exercise, socialize are why people didn’t social distance | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | Stanford Report
April 13, 2020 | Coronavirus tips: How to build better relationships remotely | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | BBC
April 13, 2020 | Economic pain will persist long after lockdowns end | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | New York Times
April 12, 2020 | The dangerous history of immunoprivilege | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | New York Times
April 10, 2020 | Could the pandemic wind up fixing what's broken about work in America? | Walter Scheidel (History and Classics) | New York Times
April 9, 2020 | Why the wealthy fear pandemics | Walter Scheidel (History and Classics) | New York Times
April 8, 2020 | Fighting isolation with the art of design and computer music | Ge Wang (Music) | Stanford Report
April 8, 2020 | Why Trump has received a much smaller approval bump than other world leaders during the pandemic | Matthew Gentzkow | Washington Post
April 7, 2020 | The Trump administration is raising the application fee for U.S. citizenship. That will cost the U.S. later on | David Laitin (Political Science) | Washington Post
April 6, 2020 | How to stay up to date with coronavirus news without losing your mind | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | Inc.
April 6, 2020 | The coronavirus crisis will change America in big ways. History says so | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2020 | How long will we be working from home? What we know -- and what we don't | Erin Mordecai (Biology) | Los Angeles Times
April 3, 2020 | Stanford Pulitzer Winner David Kennedy on Lessons for COVID-19 from the 1918 Flu Epidemic and Great Depression | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | Learning Curve
April 3, 2020 | Why Zoom meetings can exhaust us | Jeremy Bailenson (Communication) | Wall Street Journal
April 2, 2020 | The 1930s Depression was "Great." This one might be greater | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Insights by Stanford Business
April 1, 2020 | Stanford seeking to expand space for COVID-19 research | Carolyn Bertozzi (Chemistry), Chaitan Khosla (Chemistry)
April 1, 2020 | In stressful times, make stress work for you | Alia Crum (Psychology) | New York Times
March
March 31, 2020 | Frances Perkins was ready! | Margaret Levi (Political Science) | Social Science Space
March 30, 2020 | Journalists must understand provenance, motivation when reporting disinformation | Janine Zacharia (Communication) | Stanford Report
March 30, 2020 | Stanford-developed interactive model explores how different interventions affect COVID-19's spread | Erin Mordecai (Biology) | Stanford Report
March 30, 2020 | The productivity pitfalls of working from home in the age of COVID-19 | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Stanford Report
March 29, 2020 | WFH with a roommate or loved one? 5 ways to avoid killing each other | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Los Angeles Times
March 28, 2020 | Coronavirus crisis awakens a sleeping giant: China’s youth | Xueguang Zhou (Economics) | New York Times
March 28, 2020 | Habits of kindness that will endure | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Wall Street Journal
March 26, 2020 | Failing to coordinate against the coronavirus pandemic may be very costly for the world | Matthew Johnson (Economics) | Stanford Report
March 26, 2020 | Stanford students map free meals for Bay Area schoolchildren | Cheryl Phillips (Communication) | Stanford Report
March 26, 2020 | In California: Officials field calls about cars in parking lots, people too close | Mark Duggan (Economics) | USA Today
March 25, 2020 | New outbreak, familiar anxieties: Stanford historian examines yellow fever outbreak in 19th-century New Orleans | Kathryn Olivarius (History) | Stanford Report
March 24, 2020 | Coronavirus outbreak may prompt policymakers to seriously consider pros, cons of universal basic income | Jennifer Burns (History) | Stanford News
March 24, 2020 | Can we put a price tag on a life? The shutdown forces a new look | Walter Scheidel (Classics and History) | New York Times
March 23, 2020 | No immunity from political attacks as coronavirus sweeps the country | David Kennedy (History, emeritus) | Los Angeles Times
March 22, 2020 | The dangers of relying on philanthropists during pandemics | Robert Reich (Political Science) | Wired
March 22, 2020 | Choose economic freedom, choose things that work | John Taylor (Economics) CNBC
March 19, 2020 | Instead of social distancing, practice “distant socializing” instead, urges Stanford psychologist | Jamil Zaki (Psychology) | Stanford Report
March 19, 2020 | Coronavirus could be ‘make or break’ for universities’ finances | Caroline Hoxby (Economics) | World University Rankings
March 19, 2020 | The side effects of social distancing | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Freakonomics
March 17, 2020 | Former Fed governor on how the central bank can help small businesses with coronavirus volatility | John Taylor (Economics) | CNBC
March 16, 2020 | People’s uncertainty about the novel coronavirus can lead them to believe misinformation | Jeff Hancock (Communication) | Stanford Report
March 15, 2020 | Because of coronavirus we're doing things differently. How long will that last? | Russell Poldrack (Psychology) | San Francisco Chronicle
March 13, 2020 | It's more important than ever for Fed to clarify strategy | John Taylor (Economics) | Bloomberg
March 13, 2020 | 'You can hear birds': Bay Area grows quiet as the coronavirus spreads | Duana Fullwiley (Anthropology) | San Francisco Chronicle
March 6, 2020 | Expect sales to increase in areas outside travel and leisure amid coronavirus outbreak, says Stanford economics professor | John Taylor (Economics) | CNBC
March 5, 2020 | Trump’s economic cheerleading is suddenly tested | Shanto Iyengar (Political Science and Communication) | New York Times
March 3, 2020 | Fed likely won’t cut rates before March meeting because of coronavirus concerns | John Taylor (Economics) | CNBC
March 1, 2020 | ‘They’re chasing me’: the journalist who wouldn’t stay quiet on Covid-19 | Zhou Xueguang (Economics) | Guardian
March 1, 2020 | Coronavirus is different. It’s rapidly hitting supply and demand | Nicholas Bloom (Economics) | Wall Street Journal
