Reported

How the Webb Space Telescope Will Support the Search for Alien Life (Gizmodo)

Wichita State researcher explores AI ocular recognition (The Wichita Eagle; subscriber only)

Facial recognition can be used to track disease in cows (The Wichita Eagle)

Eating these foods might protect against cognitive decline, study finds (The Wichita Eagle)

These are the majors that earn Wichita State graduates the most (The Wichita Eagle)

What are playas and what can they do for Kansas farmers? New study hopes to find out (The Wichita Eagle)

Researchers working on vaccine for virus dubbed the “most significant threat to pork production in the whole world” (The Wichita Eagle)

Kansas researchers developing battery alternatives with nature’s ‘wonder material’ (The Wichita Eagle)

Can we make cheaper bridges? A KU professor thinks so (The Wichita Eagle)

Wichita State professor to build detector to study most elusive particle in the universe (The Wichita Eagle)

New study finds most relationships start between friends rather than strangers (The Wichita Eagle)

New study answers whether energy income increases farm investment (The Wichita Eagle)

Football-sized goldfish are ‘taking over’ lakes in Minnesota. What about Kansas? (The Wichita Eagle)

Need a telescope? Now you can borrow one from the Wichita Public Library (The Wichita Eagle)

Should we be working fewer hours a week? A new study says yes (The Wichita Eagle)

Wichita State team developing app to help blind and visually impaired readers (The Wichita Eagle)

Hail, strong thunderstorms possible in Wichita area, with a cold snap on the way (The Wichita Eagle)

Today’s International Joke Day: What you need to know to tell a great one (The Wichita Eagle)

Kansas astronomer helps discover new planet outside our solar system (The Wichita Eagle)

Your internet may soon be available to anyone nearby. Should you be worried? (The Wichita Eagle)

Pandemic, international travel restrictions could mean TA shortage at MSU (Lansing State Journal)

Opinion/Op-Eds

Eliminating the GRE (Physics Today Reader's Forum)

My sudden shift to online learning (Cleveland.com)

I Know Some Algorithms Are Biased—because I Created One (Scientific American)

Blogs (highlights)

#DrawnToGeoscience: Refraction in Action (AGU The Plainspoken Scientist)

Making your classroom accessible for diverse learners (Astrobites)

Yes Virginia, there is a way to reduce gender bias on your student evaluations of teaching (PERbites)