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April 3, 2024
The U-M Center for Innovation, slated to open in 2027, will help catalyze economic development in the city of Detroit, said Provost Laurie McCauley: “It will house a robust portfolio of academic programs, including new interdisciplinary graduate degrees and certificate programs aligned to the skills of the future needed to attract startups as well as major employers to the region.”
The Detroit News -
April 3, 2024
“We know the big rulers were intermarrying, but what about the political substrata — to what degree were lower elites allowed to intermarry? I think that’s where genetics could really start to tell an interesting story,” said archaeologist Bryan Miller, assistant professor of history of art, on the use of ancient DNA to glean information about a Chinese emperor’s appearance, health and ancestry.
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April 3, 2024
Spouses who have similar drinking habits tend to live longer, according to research by Kira Birditt, research professor at the Institute for Social Research: “We don’t know why both partners drinking is associated with better survival. There is little information about the daily interpersonal processes that account for these links.”
Newsweek -
April 2, 2024
“One of the strategies of disinformation campaigns is ‘flooding,’ where people interested in pushing a narrative will flood social media channels with a range of information in order to get people to give up on sorting it all out,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information. “Social media is vulnerable to flooding for the same reasons it’s resistant to state control — the ability of anyone to publish.”
Forbes -
April 2, 2024
“Japan has always followed a technical solution to patently social problems and they pursued a course of automation over replacement immigration. However, the robot revolution hasn’t emerged … so what’s happening is that it’s a lot easier to tweak visa regulations to allow in more professional workers and manual workers,” said Jennifer Robertson, professor emerita of anthropology and history of art.
Deutsches Welle (Germany) -
April 2, 2024
“The FDA has a responsibility to assure that drugs are used safely and effectively,” and the failure to warn “is an abdication of their responsibility,” said Daniel Hertz, associate professor of pharmacy, on the lack of warning labels on common cancer drugs that can kill patients deficient in an enzyme that metabolizes the drugs.
NBC News -
April 1, 2024
“Self-regulated learning talks a lot about monitoring and reflecting on what you’re doing, and I think that’s hard for students to do,” said Stephanie Teasley, research professor of information, who teamed up with Jennifer Love, business systems analyst at Information and Technology Services, to create a student-facing dashboard on Canvas that promotes self-regulated learning and study habits by showcasing course data from the learning management system.
Inside Higher Ed -
April 1, 2024
“Ship collisions with bridges that cause this kind of damage are extremely rare. There are about 40 recorded events in the past 65 years,” said Sherif El-Tawil, professor of civil and environmental engineering, who was surprised that Baltimore’s Key Bridge did not have a protection system to divert ships away from its piers.
WXYZ/Detroit -
April 1, 2024
“We know from the meme stock craze, (that) whenever there’s a bubble, it tends to attract a lot of other more rational investors who are just trying to realize the big gain, even though they have no serious interest in the company in the long run,” said Albert Choi, professor of law, after Truth Social’s stock price was bolstered by mom-and-pop investors seeking a quick buck.
USA Today -
March 29, 2024
The ship that hit Baltimore’s Key Bridge “would have either three or four independent diesel generators” to provide electricity and another ready to “automatically start in a blackout condition, but it’s not instantaneous,” said Matthew Collette, professor of naval architecture and marine engineering.
National Public Radio
