Op-ed

Kristi Westphaln, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics in the School of Medicine, wrote an op-ed published by Newsweek. Westphaln’s piece, titled “End Restrictive Family Visiting Policies in Hospitals, Nursing Homes,” called a reconsideration of visitation policies in nursing homes...

Aparna Bole, associate professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, wrote an op-ed for cleveland.com calling for elected officials in Ohio to push for a renewable-energy economy. Bole collaborated with Ariunaa Bayanjargal, MD/PhD student at The Ohio State University, and William Hardie, a ped...

In a piece published by Common Reader, Deepak Sarma contemplated the meaning of hair among Hindus. Sarma, professor in the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, drew from passages that relate to the topic as well as his own personal experiences. Read the piece, title...

Jennifer King, an assistant professor and assistant director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, weighed in on the one-year mark of COVID-19 pandemic in a piece published by Medium. Her article, titled “A Year Later, The Bod...

Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, penned a piece for Crain’s Cleveland Business about Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s lawsuit challenging part of the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA. The act is a $1.9 trillion economic ass...

Erik M. Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, recently penned an opinion piece titled “Revisiting the 25th Amendment in a (perhaps) calmer time” and published on cleveland.com about the 25th amendment. The amendment became a talking point following the U.S. Capitol insurrection in...

Ketan Jolly and Wynne Zheng, student members of the Universal Health Aid Cleveland organization, wrote an opinion piece for cleveland.com on the lead-poisoning crisis in Cleveland. Titled, “All Clevelanders need to step up to help wipe out childhood lead poisoning,” their piece demanded a broad ci...

Firouz Daneshgari, a professor at the School of Medicine, wrote an opinion piece published by Crain’s Cleveland Business on the hope COVID-19 vaccines offer. In the piece, Daneshgari discussed the decisions business leaders must make in whether they push to have their employees vaccinated. Read th...

Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, weighed in on what led to pollsters being off in predictions for the 2020 election. Entin’s piece, published on cleveland.com and titled “Shakespeare and those inaccurate polls,” called upon r...

Mark Chupp, assistant professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the founding director of the Community Innovation Network and the co-director of the Social Justice Institute, penned an op-ed piece published in The Columbus Dispatch. Titled “Five steps to hea...