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April 25, 2024
Dollars from family members who work in the U.S. are a powerful economic engine for communities in El Salvador, said Dean Yang, professor of public policy and economics: “When you receive remittances from overseas, you spend it somehow. And that spending goes to other households in the community, other small businesses.”
Marketplace -
April 25, 2024
A player in the WNBA can earn three to four times her base salary by playing overseas when the four-month U.S. season ends. “We have the best basketball players in the world. And they (other countries) show them how much they’re valued by giving them lucrative salaries,” said Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management.
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April 25, 2024
“There appears to be significant profits being made from shadow trading. The people doing it have a sense of entitlement or maybe just think, ‘I’m invincible,’” said Mihir Mehta, assistant professor of accounting, on business executives who try to avoid traditional insider trading restrictions by buying shares in economically linked firms.
The New York Times -
April 24, 2024
“Assumptions about people who speak Andalusian Spanish stem from a combination of historical socioeconomic disparities, regional stereotypes and lack of awareness about the dialect’s complexity,” said Nicholas Henriksen, associate professor of Spanish linguistics. “These stereotypes are perpetuated by media representations and societal biases, leading to a simplified and often unfair characterization of the area.”
Research Features -
April 24, 2024
“I think that’s important for households to really get a good sense for the value of their solar … think not just how valuable is it now but how valuable will it be over its lifetime,” said Michael Craig, assistant professor of environment and sustainability and of industrial and operations engineering, whose research found that climate change will increase the value of rooftop solar panels over the next 75 years.
Michigan Public -
April 24, 2024
“President Trump was probably the first politician who openly encouraged this type of confrontational behavior. … It’s the normalization of the rhetoric that seems to be a defining feature of this era that we’re in,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice of public policy, on the impact of Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric.
U.S. News & World Report -
April 23, 2024
“Different telescopes have filters that are made to be sensitive to only certain wavelengths of light. We can assign each filter to a separate color channel. … When stacked on top of each other, we get the spectacular textbook color image that we’re used to seeing in the media,” said Katya Gozman, doctoral student in astronomy, on how scientists make vibrant spectacles out of grayscale blobs in space telescope images.
Popular Science -
April 23, 2024
“The idea that we should retire (the term ‘clean energy’) because no energy is totally clean is just ridiculous,” said Catherine Hausman, associate professor of public policy, who notes that concerns about environmental damage from mining are important to consider, but they pale in comparison to the damage from extracting, refining and burning fossil fuels.
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Fast Company -
April 23, 2024
“Unfortunately, I have seen parents try to support their child through experiences of weight-based bullying by suggesting that they try to ‘eat healthier’ or ‘lose some weight.’ Young people, no matter what their body size, do not deserve to be ridiculed or mistreated because of their weight,” said Kendrin Sonneville, associate professor of nutritional sciences.
CNN -
April 22, 2024
A study by Kate Duchowny, research assistant professor at the Institute for Social Research, suggests that childhood trauma can impair the muscle function of people as they age. “If you have compromised mitochondrial function, that doesn’t bode well for a range of health outcomes, including everything from chronic conditions to physical function and disability limitations,” she said.
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