University of Oregon faculty and CSWS affiliates Mattie Burkert and Sara Hodges were interviewed recently for media stories related to their research.
Burkert, an associate professor of English, was interviewed by KGW8 in Portland about the impact of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cuts, after depositions released as part of a federal lawsuit revealed that DOGE employees used brief ChatGPT prompts to slash more than a thousand National Endowment for the Humanities grants last spring. Burkert was six months into a multi-year NEH grant to expand the London Stage Database when the cuts were announced.
You can watch the interview and read the full story here.
Hodges, a professor of psychology, was interviewed for a BBC story on how scientific research is up-ending the myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men and revealing new ways of thinking about masculinity. Her research proposes that women may show improved empathic accuracy not due to an innate ability, but because they are more motivated to do so by societal expectations. She also discusses the dire consequences of empathy bias in the interview.
You can read the full story here.