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Rainier's largest glacier is melting. Here's what that means downstream
Crosscut
Aug. 10, 2022
Dr. Claire Todd, professor of geological sciences at California State University, San Bernardino, walked down loose volcanic rock into a steep valley where the Emmons glacier once stretched into Mount Rainier National Park. She, along with a team of her geology students, then made a 1-mile trek to the end of the glacier, where an ice cave gushed water into the turbulent White River.
“We’re looking down into the belly of the beast,” said Todd. “It takes a lot of heat and melt to get this thing cranking for the season.”
CSUSB’s Meredith Conroy joins FiveThirtyEight’s Aug. 9 primary election coverage live blog
FiveThirtyEight
Aug. 9, 2022
Meredith Conroy, CSUSB associate professor of political science and a FiveThirtyEight contributor, participated in a live blog covering the Aug. 9 primary elections in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin. The website published the entire night’s analysis by Conroy and the FiveThirtyEight crew.
CSUSB professor: Hate crime are up for 4th straight year
KQED Radio (San Francisco)
Aug. 9, 2022
The latest study by CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, released on Aug. 8, shows that such incidents have risen for the fourth consecutive year. Center director Brian Levin was interviewed for the segment.
Teens yell monkeypox rhetoric while attacking gay couple
News Nation
Aug. 10, 2022
Brian Levin, the director for the Center of the Study of Hate and Extremism, said hate crimes against gay people are up in some major cities across the U.S. since last year, but hopes the stigma around gay people and monkeypox does not devolve into the one the U.S. saw with Asians and COVID-19.
Police in New Mexico detain 'primary suspect' in string of killings of Muslim men, Albuquerque chief says
USA Today
Aug. 9, 2022
Brian Levin, director of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, shared his research on anti-Muslim hate crimes as Albuquerque, N.M., police announced an arrest in the slayings of four Muslim men in that city.
Afghan man charged in killing of 2 Muslims in Albuquerque
Associated Press
Aug. 9, 2022
Brian Levin, director of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, discussed the trend of anti-Muslim hate crimes in an article about the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M.
That portion of the wire service report was also published in other news outlets, including News Nation TV network’s widely circulated report, “Albuquerque Muslim murders leave brother wanting answers.”
What do we know about the killings of four Muslims in New Mexico?
TRTWorld (Turkey)
Aug. 8, 2022
Hate crime research by Brian Levin, director of the CSUSB Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was cited in an article about the slayings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M.
Four men’s deaths get national attention
Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale)
Aug. 11, 2022
In an editorial, “The Muslim community in Albuquerque, NM, is reeling, following the recent killings of two Muslim men. It’s a city in which few anti-Muslim crimes have been recorded over the last five years, according to FBI data, cited by Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and a professor of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino.”
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