University of Arizona in the News

There is precious little known about how the impacts of school shootings ripple out to children in the rest of the community, state and nation. But there is plenty of research that suggests the trauma of violence in general probably doesn't stop at the specific location where it happened. Evidence suggests there are multiple kinds of indirect trauma, said Jennifer Carlson, a professor of sociology, government and public policy at the University of Arizona. Vicarious trauma, she said, is what happens when people like social workers are deeply exposed to the trauma of their clients and feel helpless to prevent those people from experiencing traumatic events. Community trauma, meanwhile, happens when whole populations are collectively traumatized by something that affects everyone on a cultural level, even if some individuals don't experience it personally.

When Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" went on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was the first time the famous painting had been publicly exhibited since it was brazenly cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a pair of thieves more than three decades ago. Now, after almost three years of painstaking work by Getty conservators, the damaged de Kooning has been restored and will be on display at the Getty until Aug. 28. It will then come home to the University of Arizona, where it will make its long-awaited Tucson debut in October.

When Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" went on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was the first time the famous painting had been publicly exhibited since it was brazenly cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a pair of thieves more than three decades ago. Now, after almost three years of painstaking work by Getty conservators, the damaged de Kooning has been restored and will be on display at the Getty until Aug. 28. It will then come home to the University of Arizona, where it will make its long-awaited Tucson debut in October.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines gun violence in the U.S. and the physical toll firearms may take on the human body. University of Arizona professor of surgery Dr. Bellal Joseph helped treat nine of the survivors of the mass shooting that targeted U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords back in 2011. "I can tell you from our own data, but also from a national perspective, there's no doubt that ... every trauma center in the country is seeing unprecedented numbers of trauma," he said. "Mass shootings are more prevalent at trauma centers than people actually think. Oftentimes it takes a high (profile) school shooting to activate the media, but it actually happens a lot more than we think, unfortunately."