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August 7, 2024
“We think that space is very large, but we ignore the fact that humans are also very good at trashing the environment,” said Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, assistant research scientist in climate and space science and engineering, who is helping the U.S. government detect and track millions of space junk pieces from spent rocket bodies, dead spacecraft and hardware that collides with satellites and other spacecraft.
Scientific American -
August 7, 2024
Costas Lyssiotis, associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology, says better detection is responsible for the rising rates of many cancers among younger generations: “As it relates to screening-related incidence increases, this may be best reflected for cancers where there is more incidence yet less mortality. I would venture to guess that, in such cases, we are just getting better at detecting disease.”
Newsweek -
August 7, 2024
Considering that President Nicolás Maduro retains control over the army, police force, justice system and violent paramilitary gangs, “we are likely to see more violence on the streets of Venezuela in the coming weeks. They will use repression and violence to contain the protests. The question here is how long the protests can withstand this political repression,” said Edgar Franco-Vivanco, professor of political science.
NBC News -
August 7, 2024
Twenty years after Brown v. Board of Education, another Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive, wrote Michelle Adams, professor of law: “(Milliken v. Bradley) effectively put an end to integration in northern schools by ‘containing’ the problem of segregation within city limits. And that, in effect, spelled the end for Brown itself, as the court’s ruling applied nationwide.”
The Washington Post -
July 31, 2024
Research by Sean Esteban McCabe, professor of nursing, and Philip Veliz, research associate professor of nursing, found that misuse of illicit prescription drugs among U.S. high school students fell to 2% in 2022 from 11% in 2009. “Prescribing practices have changed dramatically because we had an opioid epidemic, which turned into a heroin epidemic, and we’re still reeling from that, especially with fentanyl. A lot of this also has to do with parents having better knowledge and oversight of these medications,” Veliz said.
U.S. News & World Report -
July 31, 2024
“Our affordability problems aren’t as bad as, say, L.A.’s but people are increasingly in danger of getting priced out. What we’re doing is using student work to illustrate what could be and what could happen if we don’t look for solutions in housing,” said Sharon Haar, professor of architecture. Antje Steinmuller, chair and professor of architecture, said family constellations are so different, “yet our housing policies don’t acknowledge this. There should be a larger effort to expand family definitions through planning, and architects and planners have to help make those larger adjustments.”
Dwell -
July 31, 2024
The most recent recession in early 2020 “cost millions of jobs, but real income went up. That has never happened in other recessions,” said economist Don Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “(Now) a lot of people are being forced to economize for the first time … (confusing) a little bit of spending austerity with a recession.”
Detroit Free Press -
July 31, 2024
“Trump‘s apparent limitless resources demonstrate the financial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law. “A well-funded defendant has the luxury of pursuing every defense possible … whereas a defendant represented by a public defender or a low-cost lawyer lacks that opportunity because the lawyers are overworked and underpaid.”
USA Today -
July 31, 2024
“We’re all in. We’re spending the time to think strategically about how we can leverage our combined assets as three research universities for the benefit of the state,” President Santa J. Ono said about U-M’s collaboration with Michigan State and Wayne State universities through the University Research Corridor to help drive more economic impact in Detroit and the state as a whole.
Crain's Detroit Business -
July 24, 2024
“(It can be used) to better modulate immune responses. And in our food allergy models, inulin gel has shown great efficacy,” said James Moon, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, whose team has been working on a new approach to treating allergies — using a plant-derived dietary fiber called inulin to interact with bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
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