Joalda Morancy is an IFK alumni who took our course Explorations of Mars with Dr. Jordan Bimm in Spring 2021. In this interview they reconnect to discuss Morancy’s new book about space exploration.

Jordan Bimm, IFK Postdoctoral Researcher and Giacomo Cetorelli, Research Assistant explore future implications of space medicine

Jordan Bimm, IFK Postdoctoral Researcher explores the billionaire race to space. 

IFK postdoctoral researcher Yan Slobodkin gives a rundown of the books he's been reading this month.

Thomas Pringle describes an unforeseen after-effect of environmental radiation as it showed up on film in 1945.

IFK postdoctoral fellow Alex Campolo talks through four things keeping him thinking this month.

Joe Stadolnik watches The Dig, and sheds light on an obscure excavator of the past unlikely to inspire a Netflix movie.

Michael Rossi, an historian of medicine and science in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, and IFK Core Faculty member, reviews The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey by Henry M. Cowles. Re- printed with permission from Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Alexander Mazzaferro investigates America's long history of racial disparity and its impact on the nation's COVID-19 response.

Anastasia Klimchynskaya draws parallels between Sci-Fi and our current world to show how literature can help us understand COVID-19 and our uncertain future.

Margaret Carlyle looks to past pandemics to gain insight on COVID-19.

Nobel Laureate and IFK Faculty Member Lars Peter Hansen shares his thoughts on the global pandemic and using quantitative models to guide policy amid COVID-19 uncertainty

Yan Slobodkin explores the space between empathy and justice.

IFK Postdoc Alex Campolo breaks down how we look at pandemics like COVID-19

Nicolette Bruner asks us who — or what — people really are.

Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender discuss the evolution of the image of the fetus. This blog is based off of their current exhibit on display in the Regenstein Library Special Collections.

Damien Droney, IFK Postdoctoral Scholar focused on the politics of science, technology, and medicine in postcolonial Africa, discusses Marvel's newly-released Black Panther movie.

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer draws parallels between the American and Ancient Roman militaries.

Dr. Jack A Gilbert breaks down how our gut affects our weight.

In a world of "fake news," Whitney Cox analyzes truth according to the two South Asian languages with the longest classical pedigrees, Tamil and Sanskrit.

Eduardo Escobar, IFK Postdoctoral Researcher, discusses the opposition of Babylonian and Greek mathematics in current news, and why presentism is wrong.