Mental health

  • GSA 2023 Keynote Speech: STRIVING FOR MENTAL WELL-BEING IN ACADEMIA

    I was invited to speak in a Pardee Keynote Symposium on “Encouraging Positive Mental Health in the Geosciences” at the 2023 Geological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. The symposium was part of a NSF-funded grant to explore and ameliorate institutional triggers for mental health crises among faculty and students. Abstract Mental health is

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  • The Same Old Song and Dance: Nothing Has Been Done to Reduce Mass Shootings

    We are only a few days removed from the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, where nearly two dozen people were murdered in cold blood. As readers likely know, I survived a mass shooting in a university classroom where I was teaching anthropology. Since that shooting, I moved to San Antonio,

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