Looking to Science for Answers About Race November 6, 2014 TIME.com ran an Op-Ed written by Michael Yudell, PhD, Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Community Health and Prevention, in which he wrote "Race matters, of course, and so too does the meaning we give it. We have often turned to science for that meaning—to justify beliefs and to provide a vocabulary for explaining human differences. But science too struggles with understanding race." View Story