In the News
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March 10, 2025
“An auto company launching a new vehicle isn’t like a cereal company adding more marshmallows to a box of cornflakes. It takes three to six years to develop a new car, and it takes the design, testing and integration of assemblies from many companies. If government policy changes in the middle of the process, years of work and tens of millions of dollars can go out the window,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business.
Detroit Free Press -
March 10, 2025
Republicans and Democrats are making competing claims about the impact of tax cuts, but both can be right, says Jim Hines, professor of economics and law: “Democrats say most of the tax dollars went to the rich: They’re absolutely correct. Republicans say, ‘But the cuts were not slanted to the rich compared to how much people were paying originally,’” which is also generally correct.
CNBC -
February 28, 2025
Indirect costs for federal research allows for efficient use of resources, says Nora Becker, assistant professor of internal medicine: “One option would be for me and everyone who wants to work with similar data to each buy an incredibly expensive high-performance computer. But each of those expensive computers would only be usable by one researcher. So instead, my university takes indirect funds from grants and funds a university-wide high-performance server — a shared resource that all faculty and staff can use.”
Everyday Health -
February 28, 2025
Richard Primus, professor of law, says that President Trump “is dismantling watchdog offices and other parts of the public integrity apparatus for two reasons, one backward-looking and one forward-looking. The backward-looking reason is revenge. Some of these people and offices have stood in his way before or tried to hold him accountable for his actions. So he wants to destroy them. The forward-looking reason is his desire to use his power corruptly.”
The New York Times -
February 28, 2025
“Sense of belonging and sense of community are deeply important to their ability to matriculate successfully and then to persist from semester to semester, year to year and also towards graduation,” said Charles H. F. Davis III, assistant professor of education, who — in light of the federal directive to ax race-conscious practices and programming — expects more students of color to enroll at institutions where they face fewer hurdles, rather than more selective universities that lack targeted supports.
Inside Higher Ed -
February 27, 2025
“The idea of weathering was connoting sort of how a rock, for example, would be weathered by hundreds of years of rain and wind. It’s gonna affect it (and) absolutely wear it down. I like the word weathering in particular, because it also has another meaning, which is that you weather the storm,” said Arline Geronimus, professor of health behavior and health equity, who coined the term “weathering” to describe the corrosive effects of systemic oppression on marginalized people’s bodies.
CBS News -
February 27, 2025
A federal ban on funding for gender-affirming care is “an extremely prejudicial executive order that actually says who you are is not welcome, who you are is wrong. It sends a very chilling message (that) is felt differently by people who have different social identities … people who have social networks, more or less, around them to withstand the hurt that those things cause,” said Rogério Pinto, professor of social work, and of theatre and drama.
Michigan Public -
February 27, 2025
If evidence seized in a warrantless drug raid is critical to a case, “that would be a serious Fourth Amendment violation that would result in reversal on appeal,” said Eve Brensike Primus, professor of law. “We want police to go to a magistrate or judge to get a warrant before they search a home because homes are so private, and we want a judicial check on the police officer’s determination of probable cause beforehand.”
The New York Times -
February 26, 2025
“I think getting clean water, and access to clean water, has been a big problem for a long time. But we just keep making these types of steps and leaps, and one day we’ll have a good solution to the problem,” said Jovan Kamcev, assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering, who helped develop technology that removes boron from seawater without using costly chemicals.
Concentrate -
February 26, 2025
Women can safely skip the unpleasant speculum-based exam for HPV screening and instead test for the virus themselves using a swab, says Diane Harper, professor of family medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology: “We should try to make (the test) a more comfortable experience. … The swabs cannot replace having a conversation with your doctor. However, (they) can save the vast majority of women from getting unnecessary speculum tests.”
Reuters
