Yahoo Lifestyle, June 29: Experts Say Doing This One Thing Every Day Can Make You Happier
Darwin Guevarra, assistant professor of Psychology, is quoted in this story about the Big Joy Project, which aims to see whether small acts of joy could impact people’s happiness.

Cincinnati Business Courier, June 27: ‘This can energize Oxford’: Miami University to replace aging Millett Hall with state-of-the-art arena
Ande Durojaiye, vice president for strategy and partnerships, is quoted in this article about Miami’s potential plans to create athletic facilities that will benefit its athletic teams, student-athletes, and the surrounding area. (Subscription may be required)

Cincinnati Business Courier, June 27: Miami University’s innovative art program builds bridges for people with dementia
Miami’s Opening Minds through Art (OMA), an intergenerational art program designed for people living with dementia, is spotlighted in this article. Krysta Peterson, assistant director of OMA at Scripps Gerontology Center, is quoted. (Subscription may be required)

PacBio, June 26: Customer success story: How Miami University is using long-read sequencing on the Vega system to train the next generation of scientists
This Q-and-A with Andor Kiss, director of Miami’s Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, highlights the installation of the Vega system, a HiFi sequencing platform that helps students into roles that mirror real-world research settings.

Poets & Quants, June 25: What Happens When The Real Learning Occurs Outside The Classroom?
David Eyman, associate lecturer and director of Innovation, and Jenny Darroch, dean of the Farmer School of Business, talk about “flipped thinking,” a reorientation of how students engage with knowledge in an era where answers are instantaneous.

Great Lakes Now, June 23: Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens
This article on the decline of whitefish references lab tests done at Miami University that showed after 12 hours under a low dose of UV light, most larval whitefish died within days.