Michigan in the news

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  “For decades, states have equalized the numbers of people their districts contain. But the GOP is now pushing to equalize districts’ citizen voting-age populations instead,” co-wrote Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science. “Minority representation would drop sharply if states equalized adult citizens rather than people. But the partisan balance of power would be largely unaffected.”

  The Washington Post
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  Neurons activated during prior learning keep humming and building memories into the brain during sleep, say Sara Aton, associate professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, and doctoral student Brittany Clawson. “We would really like to know what’s facilitating that process of making a new association, like a particular set of neurons, or a particular stage of sleep. But for the longest time, there was really no way to test this experimentally,” Alton said.

  Indo-Asian News Service
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  Craig Borum, professor of architecture, and Jen Maigret, associate professor of architecture, discussed ways to reinvent staid typologies in architecture. “We’re trying to work outside of commissions to think about ways of generating new knowledge or new approaches to materials, organization, the way we work, and then letting the practice inform some of those questions, but then also letting the research feed back into the way we think about projects,” Borum said.

  The Architect's Newspaper