October 21, 2004

Ichthyology meets ignominy at the Ig Nobels

Steven Stack, professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Wayne State, is the recipient of an Ig Nobel Award for his research (with James Gundlach of Auburn University) that found a correlation between suicide rates and persons who listen to country music. Stack won in the medicine category. There were over 5,000 nominations for the nine prizes for the tongue-in-cheek awards that nevertheless bring attention to some interesting research studies. Stack's study results were published in 1992 and drew nationwide attention at the time.

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