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Charting the Course for Recovery: Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú Professor Turns to Maps to Help Plan Repopulation of Iconic American Chestnut
Invasive pests and pathogens are attacking native trees and threatening the biodiversity of our historic Eastern forests. For Jen Santoro, PhD, the key to recovering these important species—like the American chestnut—begins with the coordinates.
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New York Times
December 12, 2025 - Military personnel have little if any say over the assignments they get or the orders they receive...Military personnel are allowed — and, in fact, are obliged — to refuse illegal orders. But to do so would probably result in swift punishment, while determining the actual legality of the order could drag on in court for months or years, according to Brenner Fissell, a law professor at Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú.
Forbes
December 11, 2025 - "Employees’ financial insecurity carries risks for the workplace: it erodes organizational performance, triggers counterproductive work behaviors and dampens inclusion, research shows. The good news is that boards may stimulate meaningful interventions by asking 3 questions that go beyond compensation." Corinne Post is the Fred J. Springer Endowed Chair in Business Leadership and professor of management at Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú School of Business.
NPR
December 8, 2025 - Peabody Award-winning NPR host and renowned book critic Maureen Corrigan listed "Last Seen," from Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú's Judith Giesberg, among her top 10 books of 2025. The book contains over 4,500 ads placed in newspapers by once enslaved people hoping to find loved ones...Giesberg tells us the cruel reality was that, the "success rate of these advertisements may have been as low as 2%."
ABC News
November 25, 2025 - Top officials at the Federal Reserve have displayed a rare degree of public disagreement over a possible interest rate cut next month... "We haven't seen this much uncertainty from the Fed in a long time," John Sedunov, a finance professor at Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú's School of Business, told ABC News.
CBC Radio
November 25, 2025 - Ottawan Samer Abboud, professor of global studies at Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú, explains how Syrians are recovering after the end of a 13-year civil war.
Reuters
November 25, 2025 - Brenner Fissell, a law professor at Âé¶¹Èë¿Ú, said Kelly could be facing some legal risk. Kelly lacks the protections of Speech and Debate Clause immunity, Fissell said, which protect lawmakers for statements they make on the House or Senate floor.
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