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February 4, 2025
“If you can extract it similar to the way you might extract petroleum or natural gas from the ground, you can save yourself a lot of energy and costs because you don’t have to separate it,” said Todd Allen, co-director of MI Hydrogen and professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, after federal research found that Michigan could have significant amounts of hydrogen gas underground — an untapped source for clean fuel.
WCMU Radio -
February 4, 2025
“Universities gain a competitive edge through inclusive hiring practices. That’s because diverse groups are more creative and deliberative. They work harder and smarter. They are better at thinking through problems, seeing them from multiple angles and arriving at novel solutions. In short, diversity sparks innovation and excellence,” wrote Lilia Cortina, professor of psychology and of women’s and gender studies.
Detroit Free Press -
February 4, 2025
Chief among the national security concerns of TikTok is the possibility that U.S. officials or lawmakers — many of whom have active accounts — could be compromised by an adversarial government. “It does seem potentially incongruent for some of the folks with the most sensitive data … to be least susceptible to foreign influence being on this platform,” said Norman Bishara, professor of business law and ethics.
UPI -
February 3, 2025
“Everything has to have a limit. There’s no creature on planet Earth that we know of that doesn’t die at some point. But there’s obviously substantial variation in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy. … How long can we live and be able to have the type of psychological, functional and social life that makes life worth living? What is that life expectancy?” said Briana Mezuk, professor of epidemiology.
Popular Science -
February 3, 2025
“Openness raises all tides when it comes to AI development. They’ve enabled the broader AI community to study and verify their methodology and weave it into their work,” said Jason Corso, professor of robotics and of electrical engineering and computer science, on the open-source approach used by DeepSeek and other upstarts that freely distribute their technology for the public to use, share and modify.
The Wall Street Journal -
February 3, 2025
Diets that prioritize fruits, vegetables and whole grains tamp down inflammation, which is linked to sleep disturbances, says Erica Jansen, assistant professor of nutritional sciences. And when people are short on sleep, they tend to crave — and eat — less healthy options, which can create “this cycle of poor sleep leading to poor diet quality, which we think then feeds back onto poor sleep.”
The New York Times -
January 31, 2025
“I don’t think the world will adopt it. It just seems like a not-well-thought-out, temporary, pointless thing,” said Tim Utter, director of the Social Sciences and Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Data Services Team, about Donald Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico, which first appeared on a world map around 1550.
Detroit Free Press -
January 31, 2025
“Can the adolescent who used cannabis more than 1,000 times between the ages of 15 and 20, but stopped using … demonstrate improved working memory 10 years later? That is my $64 question — where is the hope for the person with a chronic use disorder who wants their memory back?” said Carol Boyd, professor emerita of nursing and founding director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health.
CNN -
January 31, 2025
As a general rule, the federal government can’t force states to enforce federal law, including immigration laws, says Michael Steinberg, director of the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at Michigan Law: “The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the federal government cannot force state and local officials to enforce federal law and that’s under the 10th Amendment and the anti-commandeering doctrine developed by the Supreme Court.”
MLive -
January 30, 2025
Mitchel Sollenberger, professor of political science at UM-Dearborn, says the way in which Donald Trump is exerting his executive authority isn’t out of the ordinary: “It’s a world we live in that we’ve been living in for decades … it’s presidential-centered governance, where presidents set policy, presidents sort of push their worldview on things and they push to the limits, not only the Constitution, but also laws.”
U.S. News & World Report
