Fall 2008

Garber wasn't the first female sportswriter, according to David Kaszuba, an associate professor of communications at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, who has studied those pioneering women. Most notably, Margaret Goss wrote about women's sports for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s. "At a time when most women journalists covered only women's sports or the 'women's angle,' Garber broke the mold," Kaszuba said. "She wrote about sports very regularly, she covered both men's and women's sports and she had a 40- or 50-year career." Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21, commenting on the death of "Miss Mary" Garber.

When exposed to bitter cold, your body shivers, and this involuntary movement creates heat the same way exercise does. If you stay in the cold and your body temperature continues to drop, shivering will stop when the muscles no longer have enough energy to move, says David Richard, a professor of biology at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He teaches the course Exercise and Extreme Physiology and is an authority on the processes that sustain life under extreme conditionsand on what happens when the human body is exposed to more than it can withstand. Discover magazine, Sept. 5, in "How to Fall Out of a Plane and Live, and Other Survival Tips"

Summer 2008

In their work they were aware of clathrates, naturally occurring cagelike clusters of atoms that trap other atoms within them. So, using what was then new software developed by Kenneth A. Brakke at Susquehanna University, they decided to evaluate clathrate structures in relation to the Kelvin problem, Dr. Weaire said. New York Times, Aug. 5, in "A Problem of Bubbles Frames an Olympic Design," describing difficulties in designing the Bejing National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Summer Olympics and how Brakke's software helped to solve them.

"I want to make sure we're serving all students. We need to have all African-American and Hispanic students receive the same opportunities as other students." Karen Lockard, a 1977 graduate of SU, as quoted in The Gazette (Silver Spring, Md.) July 2, after being named principal of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

Spring 2008

"The cultural context that gave rise to the Bible is very male-oriented. So it's not only that the culture more highly values males and gives them most of the authority and leadership, but also the text itself was largely authored by men, and so they're naturally going to focus on themselves." Karla Bohmbach, religion professor at Susquehanna University, in "Spiritual Identity," Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La. ), June 7

Winter 2008

What happens inside the lab of Dr. Carlos Iudica is not for someone with a weak stomach.

The Susquehanna University biology professor, with the help of his students, has accumulated hundreds of stomachs from red and gray fox, coyotes and mink. They are safely stored in freezers and, on the surface, the scene may sound somewhat macabre.

But there is a simple reason behind Iudica's interest in furbearer stomachs -- he wants to know what they eat.

"I want to know who is eating what and when," he said. "This research can really help define the fauna that we have in the state."

And that's where a two-fold approach to Iudica's research comes in. Not only will his finding determine what the furbearers are eating, it will shed light on which prey species are more available then others. The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), Feb. 10.