Rosales has published dozens of articles related to environmental affairs, most with a focus on climate change. His current research focuses on the impacts of climate change on native subsistence villages in Alaska, making their concerns visible, advocating for their assistance, and calling on governments to act on climate change. His work is housed on the Alaskan Sharing Indigenous Knowledge website (AKSIK.org).

St. Laurence University
May 3, 2013

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"I'm surprised we don't see more investments from local governments" in municipal networks, given it is easier now to create them, said Chris Mitchell, director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative, part of a nonprofit that promotes municipal Internet services. He added that telecommunications companies "are not meeting local needs and local governments have been compelled to start filling in to provide the needed connectivity."

Wall Street Journal
March 27, 2013

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"This convolution makes people lose faith in the system," Kuzma said. "They just go, 'Well, that's silly.'" Faith is further eroded, Kuzma and others said, because most genetically modified crops are not required to go through an FDA safety review.

Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2013

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Such choices may come as a shock to to Minnesotans' assumptions about water, said Deborah Swackhamer, co-director of the Water Resources Center at the University of Minnesota.Elsewhere in the country per-capita water use is declining, but not in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. That, she said, could require hard adjustments. Higher prices for water could result, or more water recycling, or the controversial idea of allowing cities to re-inject treated water back into aquifers.

Star Tribune
February 28, 2013

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"Nanotechnology is difficult to discuss as one thing. It's an emerging technology, or a set of applications, tools, and scientific methods, to study matter and to manipulate matter at a very small scale, which would be the level of an atom or a molecule. So when you say, what is the level of oversight for nanotechnology, it's very hard to discuss it because it is so broad."

PBS LearningMedia
February 19, 2013

Jennifer Kuzma, PhD, associate professor of science and technology policy at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, was the lone vote against the use in children. Matthew Kuehnert, MD, director of the CDC's office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety in Atlanta, abstained, saying it was impossible to cast a vote for or against when there was little data on pediatric use.

Med Page Today
February 13, 2013

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There are arguments on both sides of the labeling debate when it comes to safety. Safety studies in the peer reviewed literature, the ones that people can have access to, have evidence on both sides. Most GM crops have been shown to be safe but some studies have indicated some potential harm.

FOX-TV
January 21, 2013

Kelley explained that voters in this country believe in the value of science, but they don't do the work of understanding it themselves. "The polling indicates that, in general, Americans still value science," Kelley said. People have to work through the potential contradictions, adding that they need to think consistently about science across multiple subjects, because "they sure like what it can do for delivering electricity to their homes or curing disease. We have to help educate people that the same science and the same scientific processes that do that also yield what we know about climate change and evolution."

Advancing Science Serving Society, Member Central
January 1, 2013

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It would take a lot of smart people working pretty hard to engineer a virus that has just the right combination of deadliness and transmissibility to kill off a big part of the human population, according to Jennifer Kuzma, who specializes in science and technology policy as a professor at the U's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. But the biotech field is advancing so rapidly that, maybe in 30 or 50 years, it would take only one really smart ill-intentioned person to create some real mischief, Kuzma said.

Pioneer Press
December 19, 2012

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We really need to have a new conversation and I think that in too many places, we've been having an old conversation about should we invest in technology. Communities need [to facilitate this conversation] and start with elected officials, with school boards, with the superintendent, talking about, what does learning look like today?

Comcast Newsmakers
December 17, 2012

The Red River flows along the Minnesota-North Dakota border into Manitoba and empties into Lake Winnipeg. It's one of the world's largest lakes, and forum organizers say it serves as a "canary in the coal mine" for the overall health of water within an enormous watershed. Challenges facing Lake Winnipeg include algae blooms, depleted oxygen levels, invasive species and the effects of climate change. Minnesota waters in the Red River Basin face similar issues.

Bismark Tribune
December 9, 2012

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December 9, 2012

"There is significant evidence that contaminants contribute to a lack of reproduction in the lakes," said Deborah Swackhamer, co-director of the University of Minnesota's Water Resources Center. "PCBs and dioxin are going down in Lake Ontario and contaminants are going down in Superior, and you're seeing more successful lake trout reproduction in these lakes."

Environment Health News
November 8, 2012

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"As a Minnesotan you want to be proud of your natural resources and your water resources, but in fact 40 percent of our lakes and rivers are out of compliance with federal standards," said Professor Deb Swackhamer.

KARE-TV
November 1, 2012

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The Food Policy Research Center, comprised of five schools and colleges at the University of Minnesota, has released the first in a series of fact sheets designed to inform policy-makers on a variety of issues through a comprehensive, scientific approach and are part of a broader analysis of food policy topics. The first fact sheet focuses on genetically modified foods and is titled "Safety Assessment of Genetically Engineered Foods: U.S. Policy & Current Science."

Feedstuffs
October 25, 2012

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The best way to ensure a reliable and cost- effective power system is to have a diverse portfolio of resources, and wind energy is an important part of that mix.

Washington Post
October 17, 2012

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