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September 16, 2022
A newly constructed U-M facility, home to the most powerful laser in the U.S. — called ZEUS — was to send its first pulses into an experimental target this week. It will “have a huge range of applications across science, technology, engineering and medicine,” said Louise Willingale, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
The Associated Press -
September 16, 2022
“When you’re financially healthy, you have money set aside in savings, you have room on your credit card to be able to afford an emergency. So what this is saying is that many Detroiters are not financially healthy,” said Afton Branche-Wilson, assistant director of community initiatives at Poverty Solutions, about a report that many families living in poverty would struggle if faced with a $400 emergency.
Michigan Radio -
September 15, 2022
“The incredible structures we observe will detail how the feedback cycle of stellar birth occurs in our galaxy and beyond,” said Edwin Bergin, professor and chair of astronomy, commenting on the new James Webb Space Telescope images that captured the most detailed and sharpest images ever taken of the Orion Nebula 1,350 light-years away.
Insider -
September 15, 2022
“The mere fact they were top-secret FBI documents, they only should have been stored, processed, handled in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility and Mar-a-Lago clearly was not,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice of public policy, on the more than 300 classified documents the FBI recovered during its search of Mar-A-Lago.
Salon -
September 15, 2022
“I would be embarrassed to say something that naive and divorced from reality if I had said it as a first-year law student. For the chief justice to say it is just an insult to the intellect of everyone who knows anything about the court, American democracy and politics,” said Leah Litman, assistant professor of law, about Chief Justice John Roberts saying, “simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court.”
The Washington Post -
September 14, 2022
“I think the big fight, now that the (Michigan) Supreme Court has allowed … abortion petitions to be on the ballot, is you’re going to hear a lot of, ‘Oh, my God, the sky is falling. If you vote for this, this is what’s going to happen,’ and it’s just not true,” said Edward Goldman, director of the Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, on claims by anti-abortion groups that dozens of laws will be repealed or rendered invalid by a proposed abortion-rights amendment.
WDIV (Detroit) -
September 14, 2022
Detroit is mulling spending $8 million in federal pandemic relief funds on technology that identifies the sound of gunshots through live microphones in public places. “There are things they could be doing with that funding that will reduce crime that are evidence based. … It is not about policing,” said Molly Kleinman, managing director of the Ford School’s Science, Technology and Public Policy program.
Axios Detroit -
September 14, 2022
“Having those constant visual or oral reminders of stereotypes, such as park names, negatively affects the group being stereotyped. … But they also reinforce that stereotyping behavior in the general population,” said Cherry Meyer, assistant professor of American culture and of linguistics, on a government initiative to eliminate derogatory terms, such as “squaw,” from federal use.
The Detroit News -
September 13, 2022
A Texas judge’s ruling that businesses shouldn’t be forced to provide insurance that includes HIV-prevention care coverage could endanger free routine screenings for a variety of other health problems, said Mark Fendrick, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance: “I’m particularly worried that it’s going to be a huge blow for population health in general and an even bigger blow for the most vulnerable Americans who work so hard to get access to these services.”
Bridge Michigan -
September 13, 2022
“Telling the colonized how they should feel about their colonizer’s health and wellness is like telling my people that we ought to worship the Confederacy,” said Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, associate professor of education, speaking out against the backlash toward those who have questioned Queen Elizabeth’s II’s legacy as a figurehead for the brutality against people who suffered under British imperialism.
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