In the News
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September 13, 2022
“People in Michigan can be pretty nervous about the transition to electric vehicles because they actually require by some estimation a lot less labor to assemble because there are fewer parts,” said Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Economic Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “There are questions about what does that mean for these jobs.”
The New York Times -
September 12, 2022
Nearly half of local officials in Michigan say they have personally experienced online or in-person harassment. “Unfortunately, these findings are indicators of the problems facing our democracy today. Local leaders generally want their residents engaged in their government’s work, but not like this,” said Tom Ivacko, executive director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy.
Detroit Free Press -
September 12, 2022
“Part of the reason to try to get this out as quickly as possible is because we’ve got the fall season coming. We really want to bring down the rates of infection in people, and putting out a vaccine that generates immunity specifically to the circulating variants will help to do that,” said Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology, on the new COVID-19 booster that targets current Omicron variants.
WIRED -
September 12, 2022
New research shows that forehead thermometers may be less accurate than oral thermometers in detecting fevers in Black patients. “As someone who has … found something similar in a different diagnostic tool — pulse oximetry — unfortunately, I’m not surprised,” said Tom Valley, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine.
CNN -
September 9, 2022
Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering, and Neil Dasgupta, associate professor of mechanical engineering, will lead a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded research center that will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors in solid-state batteries, a powerful material that could revolutionize the automotive industry. “If you think of ceramics, like pottery or plates, they don’t catch fire very easily,” Dasgupta said. “By replacing this kind of flammable component, we could potentially reduce the risk of fires, which is a really critical safety challenge.”
The Detroit News -
September 9, 2022
“We really don’t know what the properties of a new variant will be. There’s a lot of wiggle room in what could happen,” said Marisa Eisenberg, associate professor of epidemiology, mathematics and complex systems. “It’s still better to go ahead and get the booster because you’re building your immunity to a wider range of COVID variants than what you had before … and that will build the rest of your immunity.”
Bridge Michigan -
September 9, 2022
“Public colleges do not merely have a duty to defend their core mission. They also have an obligation to support and protect their faculty, staff and students. They must clearly insist on our people’s right not to be forced into pregnancy, not to be demeaned or disadvantaged due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and to have all of their histories studied and told,” wrote Silke-Maria Weineck, professor of comparative literature and German studies.
The Chronicle of Higher Education -
September 8, 2022
“We don’t teach about labor unions in business schools. They’re just not a big enough factor in the private sector,” said Jerry Davis, professor of management and organizations, on the long, slow decline of private-sector unions because of endemic corruption and their inability to save jobs in decaying industries.
The Washington Post -
September 8, 2022
Consumers have “signaled strong concerns that inflation will continue to erode their incomes” and that while consumer spending has been robust, the deterioration of sentiment could lead Americans to “cut back on spending and thereby slow down economic growth,” says Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers at the Institute for Social Research.
The Wall Street Journal -
September 8, 2022
“If we’re taking energy as a human right, then that means no more shut-offs. Because we know that, whether that happens in extreme heat or extreme cold, this can lead to death,” said Justin Schott, project manager for the Energy Equity Project at the School of Environment and Sustainability, who believes moratoriums on shut-offs should continue while the government continues to tinker with electricity affordability and assistance programs.
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