In the News

  1. March 18, 2024
    • Hafiz Malik

    While AI-generated audio lacks the obvious visual cues of AI images or videos, there are ways to identify AI audio by listening for abnormalities in vocal tone, articulation or pacing, says Hafiz Malik, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM-Dearborn: “(AI-generated voices) lack emotions. They lack the rise and fall in the audio that you typically have when you talk. They are pretty monotonic.”

    The Dallas Morning News
  2. March 18, 2024
    • Cathy Goldstein

    Cathy Goldstein, professor of neurology at the Sleep Disorders Center, says if one’s sleep-wake cycle changes a lot, the body will not have a great idea of when to have high-quality deep sleep: “Circadian rhythm is our internal biological clock, it times when we’re awake, it times when we’re asleep — it times most of our physiological processes, so our body does what it needs to do at the right time of day.”

    CNN
  3. March 18, 2024
    • Brian Jacob

    “It’s a substantial reduction in their achievement. It’s a tragedy. It’s a massive case of government failure in one of its basic jobs to help ensure the physical well-being of its citizens,” said Brian Jacob, professor of public policy, economics and education, who found that after the Flint water crisis, students faced a substantial decline in math scores — losing the equivalent of five months of learning progress.

    The Washington Post
  4. March 15, 2024
    • Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos

    “A healthy workforce is not just about the physical well-being of an individual but is one that protects and enables the integration of its workforce into our social fabric regardless of their race, ethnicity, economic position or the nationality of the workers,” said Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, research investigator in epidemiology.

    Environmental Health News
  5. March 15, 2024
    • Charles H.F. Davis III

    “When institutions do nothing, they become not only culpable and complicit, but actively participatory. We need to think about what institutions can and should do in these instances that would not allow for those things to be possible,” said Charles H.F. Davis III, assistant professor of education, on the response of colleges and universities to attacks against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

    The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6. March 15, 2024
    • Meha Jain

    The use of low-cost solar pumps by farmers in arid regions to irrigate their fields eliminates using fossil fuels and boosts crop production, but is drying up aquifers around the world. “Groundwater depletion is becoming a global threat to food security, yet … remains poorly quantified,” said Meha Jain, associate professor of environment and sustainability.

    WIRED
  7. March 14, 2024
    • Aarti Raheja

    “We’ve seen this huge drop in children who are fully vaccinated, and unfortunately, it’s just not coming back up to the levels that we were at before. That is concerning because it puts us at risk for these vaccine-preventable diseases, like we’re seeing with measles,” said Aarti Raheja, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics.

    Detroit Free Press
  8. March 14, 2024
    • Jon D. Miller

    “The Trump administration’s contempt for scientific and technological expertise was rightly a cause for concern, but our study shows that the American public was by and large unaffected. But it will be necessary to continue to improve the public’s understanding of science and technology to ensure that it is equipped to weather any further storms,” said Jon D. Miller, research scientist emeritus at the Center for Political Studies.

    U.S. News & World Report
  9. March 14, 2024
    • Shakara Tyler

    “Food sovereignty and environmental justice movements (are) about building power to be self-determining and self-reliant on our labors, ingenuity and more, so that we can be less reliant on the systems not built for us,” said Shakara Tyler, lecturer in environment and sustainability and co-founder of Black to the Land, a coalition that connects people of color to culturally relevant outdoor nature experiences.

    PBS NewsHour
  10. March 13, 2024

    “Everyone understands that this is a budget impact on our health care spending, like maybe we’ve never seen,” said Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine and director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, about the high demand for “amazingly effective” but expensive weight loss drugs.

    Bridge Michigan