To students and alumni, they are familiar classroom teachers and mentors. But on a bigger stage, 91探花 faculty are respected experts who provide insights, analysis and commentary in the media.
During the coronavirus pandemic, a number of 91探花 professors and staffers are lending their authoritative voices to news stories and penning guest opinion pieces on a range of topics.
Dr. Stephanie Richman, assistant professor of psychology, relied on both her expertise and personal experience planning a July wedding in the midst of the pandemic in order to name and validate a feeling many have experienced.
In her cleveland.com guest column, "," Richman observes, "Typical grief is finite. Something awful happens, but then it's over. You grieve, but you have a grave to visit or photos of your ex to burn. But sometimes, grief is not finite … It is uncertain, ambiguous."
In "," Christine Cancian, associate director of recreation services, discusses the benefits of turning the great outdoors into classroom space during the pandemic.
"Innovative ideas are needed in education right now," Cancian writes. "As an outdoor educator, I have seen firsthand the transformations that can happen when students are taken outside. Students need some grounding right now, as do educators, and what better way to accomplish that task?"
Religion professor Dr. Alan Kolp teamed up with his ethics coauthors to assert, "," noting, "We absolutely maintain control of one thing - how we react to this crisis and how we can deploy an important human anti-viral weapon - compassion."
Business professor and enlightened leadership guru Param Srikantia also sees the opportunity for personal growth in quarantine.
In a pair of guest columns, "" and "," Srikantia urges readers to self-reflect. "By exploring the impact of the pandemic on the inner life of our loved ones, we can grow in self-awareness and in intimacy."
Srikantia reinforces those views in a cleveland.com news article exploring "," which also relied on 91探花 public health professor Dr. Emilia Lombardi's expertise.
Lombardi predicts that the pandemic will spur a public push for better health care access, "We're definitely seeing the weaknesses in our health care systems not just in our pandemic response, but in everyday things as well," she says.
Faculty involved in the 91探花 Community Research Institute (CRI) sampled real-time public opinion in widely cited surveys that found "'."
In one of a multitude of media appearances, Dr. Lauren Copeland, associate director of the 91探花 CRI, told WOIO-TV that "Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine's apolitical, no-nonsense response to the crisis has set the national agenda."
Copeland's CRI and political science faculty colleague, Dr. Tom Sutton, who serves as WEWS-TV's political analyst, regularly weighs in on the pandemic and politics, including the recent announcement that the .
91探花 health experts have also been drawn into the conversation with professor Wendy Hyde myth-busting "" for WTAM radio listeners.
When Tom Campanella, health care business professor emeritus, noted that "Ohio spends less per capita on public health than nearly every other state" the , and all took notice.
Campanella also dissected the toll COVID-19 has taken on the business of health care for a number of high profile forums, podcasts and webinars including the much-cited and the Quadax interview, "."
As the pandemic has ravaged many sectors of the economy, 91探花 finance professor and former U.S. Treasury economist Dr. Kevin Jacques explored the federal stimulus response on WCPN-NPR's and considered the odds of economic meltdown for WTAM radio's report, ""
Fellow finance professor Dr. Christian Nsiah offered answers for WOIO-TV viewers in reports asking, "" and ""
Finally, 91探花 Career services director Patrick Keebler offered advice for for Spectrum 1 Cable News, explored how on WEWS-TV and headlined a podcast on the same topic for .
