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February 14, 2025
Math is the bright spot in Michigan’s academic recovery story, according to new data examining the pace of post-pandemic recovery in U.S. school districts. “There has been more work helping teachers teach math, more opportunities to learn the math, more opportunities to think about how you address equity … in math learning,” said Deborah Loewenberg Ball, professor of education.
The Detroit News -
February 14, 2025
“The actions taken by DOGE will ultimately prove to be insufficient. It can trim a few unproductive agencies and cajole some of the federal workforce to resign, but unless it can find solutions to federal overspending as a whole — without crippling important federal programs in the process — the underlying problem will remain,” said Jared Arkfeld, doctoral student in chemical engineering.
The Wall Street Journal -
February 14, 2025
Immigration raids can damage communities for years, fracturing social networks, worsening food insecurity and endangering physical and mental health, says William Lopez, clinical associate professor of health behavior and health equity: “There’s no clear end to the impact. The potential removal just lingers on for years like a war wound that won’t heal.”
The Washington Post -
February 13, 2025
“As with any new U.S. presidential administration, there is uncertainty in terms of priorities, appointments and processes,” said Sharon Matusik, dean of the Ross School of Business. These add to “technology, a shifting geopolitical landscape, the changing labor market, environmental challenges and social issues we have already been collectively grappling with.”
Financial Times -
February 13, 2025
“The job of marketing is to influence behavior, and sometimes that means identifying problems that you may not know that you have, or underlying insecurities that may prevent you from losing social currency down the road,” said Marcus Collins, clinical assistant professor of business, on how the lifestyle-med company Hims has built a business on male anxieties.
The Atlantic -
February 13, 2025
“By cutting indirect costs, the federal government will force universities to scale back research that may help develop the next vaccine or cure, or the next technological innovation that will create new businesses or help secure our country,” wrote Mary Sue Coleman, president emerita, about the Trump administration’s 15% reimbursement cap — currently on hold pending federal court action — for facility and administrative expenses universities incur while conducting work funded by federal research agencies.
Inside Higher Ed -
February 12, 2025
“There is a groundswell of bipartisan support to combat our country’s chronic disease crisis. And there’s a clear and actionable strategy on the table: translate the FDA’s updated definition of ‘healthy’ food into a simple symbol that we can all use to guide our supermarket choices,” wrote Jennifer Garner, assistant professor of nutritional sciences.
MedPage Today -
February 12, 2025
Detroit soil and street dust contain high levels of PCNs and PCBs — toxic and persistent contaminants that could pose a threat to human health, says Stuart Batterman, professor of environmental health sciences: “The problem happens to be near waste sites or waste piles that aren’t really controlled. … So removing these waste piles, characterizing the soils, covering them with clean fill is a way to control the problem.”
Michigan Public -
February 12, 2025
“(The Trump) administration appears to be not just setting priorities, but enforcing ideological conformity in a way that if your (research) grant is studying something that’s not aligned with a particular view of the world, it’s just not going to be funded. I think taking that away has the potential to undermine the whole scientific enterprise,” said Elizabeth Popp Berman, professor of organizational studies.
National Public Radio -
February 11, 2025
“It feels like we are under attack. … It’s an ethical imperative to address public health, and by not doing that, whether it’s through not studying gender or specifically erasing transgender people from public health, we have a real problem on our hands,” said Sari Reisner, associate professor of epidemiology, whose research with Kristi Gamarel, associate professor of health behavior and health equity, on federal defunding of HIV prevention among transgender minority youth.
The Washington Post
