News Clips

Hillary Anger Elfenbein, the John K. Wallace Jr. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor and professor of organizational behavior; and William Bottom, associate dean and academic director for Undergraduate Programs and the Howard and Marilyn Wood Distinguished Professor, both at Olin Business School, share insights on negotiation and feelings of satisfaction with examples from “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Greg Magarian, a constitutional law expert at the School of Law, writes an op-ed about a proposed Missouri regulation of public libraries, arguing that the requirements to protect children from “inappropriate materials” would “inject government bias into library funding” in violation of the Constitution.

Andrej Spec, MD, associate professor of medicine

Michelle Oyen, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, writes in Science Advances about how recent engineering advances provide new tools and techniques to alleviate poor pregnancy outcomes that can lead to maternal and fetal death and long-term medical complications.

Sunita Parikh, in Arts & Sciences, writes on the “Human Ties” blog about the recent World Cup in Qatar, the juxtaposition of thrilling moments on the field with ugly business and political elements behind major sporting events and the concept of “sportswashing.”

Rachel Sachs, Treiman Professor of Law

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law

David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and the George and Carol Bauer Dean of the School of Medicine, explains the school’s decision to no longer submit data to U.S. News & World Report to support their “best medical schools” survey and ranking.

Yongseok Shin, professor of economics

Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, assistant professor of medicine