Prof. Shen Publishes Super Bowl Op-Ed on Football and the Brain

Associate Professor Francis Shen published an op-ed in the Star Tribune defending the sport of football, and suggesting that we may be overestimating the risks of sports concussion. Shen wrote that we should fully inform athletes of the risks, but we shouldn’t take the game of football away from them. Prof. Shen is part of an interdisciplinary University of Minnesota Grand Challenges team working to improve brain health in youth sports in Minnesota.