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These are featured stories of how the Upper Delta and Mid-South is combating the Coronavirus as well as resources to help those impacted by the pandemic.

A-State Professor's TEDx Talk Explores Hoarding Behavior

Arkansas State University

Recently, an Arkansas State University professor gave a TEDx Talk to an empty room about why people have hoarding tendencies in times of crisis.  In this talk you can watchhere, Associate Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University Dr. Hans Hacker asks a question about why so many people have been hoarding toilet paper during this COVID-19 pandemic.  KASU Station Manager Mark Smith interviewed Hacker about his talk.  Click on the Listen button for the entire interview.   

A graduate of the radio-television program at A-State, Mark Smith earned his degree in broadcasting in 1986 and received a Master of Public Administration in 2015. He actually started in radio in 1982, just out of high school, with a part-time summer job at KBXM, a small AM station in Kennett, Mo. After his freshman year at Arkansas State, he landed another summer job at KBOA/KTMO in Kennett and continued to work weekends there while attending college.