National media hits soar

Binghamton University’s name has been seen across all media and around the world this fall. A sampling of some of the top placements for Binghamton, in no particular order, includes:

    •  “PBS film plumbs Civil War’s staggering toll”
    42 separate news sources in September and October 2012
    In the PBS American Experience documentary “Death and the Civil War”, bloated Union and Confederate bodies are shown scattered on battlefields and in trenches and bleached skulls and body parts are stacked like cord word. … The research of J. David Hacker, a demographic historian at Binghamton University in upstate New York. That number, cited by the documentary…

    •  “College students’ sexual hookups more complex than thought”
    ScienceDaily and 72 other news sources in October and November 2012
    Between 60 to 80 percent of college students have experienced some kind of sexual ‘hook-up,’ researchers say. Researchers from Binghamton University and The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University collaborated on a comprehensive academic review of the sexual hook-up culture…

    •  “The 10 Coolest College Classes”
    Seventeen magazine – Oct. 23, 2012
    Have the urge to release your inner Tarzan? … You’ll be swinging from branch to branch in Binghamton University’s tree climbing class…

    •  “How Hypnosis Taught Me to Sleep”
    More magazine – Nov. 2, 2012
    “Hypnosis is better than no treatment,” says Steven Jay Lynn, distinguished professor of psychology …

    •  “Hurricane Sandy Unlikely to Spur Needed Economic Stimulus”
    The Huffington Post – Oct. 29, 2012
    After checking to make sure his boat line is secure, Bob Casseday crosses a flooded street in Lewes, Del., as Hurricane Sandy hits Delaware, Monday, Oct. …Hurricane Sandy. [Solomon] Polachek, an economics professor at New York’s Binghamton University, said that Hurricane Sandy is likely to damage crops…

    •  “Surprising reasons you’re not losing weight”
    Fox News – Sept. 1, 2012
    You’ve been walking the straight and narrow – counting calories, working out – and yet you’re not dropping pounds. What gives? The answer may be hiding out amid the random things you do over the course of an average day – those little habits that have seemingly no connection to weight loss, but may in fact explains study co-author Kalpesh Desai, associate professor of marketing at Binghamton University. Do you think about exercise a lot? There’s…”

    •  “To Teach Evolution, You Have to Understand Creationists”
    The Chronicle of Higher Education – Nov. 19, 2012
    “If you follow the news about culture wars, evolution, and creationism, you’ve probably seen it by now. Earlier this fall, U.S. Rep. Paul C. Broun Jr., Republican of Georgia who ran unopposed for re-election, said in a widely distributed video that evolution, embryology, and the Big Bang theory were ‘lies straight from the pit of hell.’ ... “I don’t agree,” writes Adam Laats, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at Binghamton University…