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June 8, 2022
Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, says the Federal Reserve will take action to bring inflation down, but “gas is still going to be expensive, relative to other things, until we end this war in Ukraine. … The Fed can’t undo that. What it can do is reduce the rate of price increases on average, but I still think you should be thinking about, you know, is it a good time to get a fuel-efficient car or buy that electric bicycle?”
CBS News "Face the Nation" -
June 1, 2022
“A lot of the political rhetoric around reducing firearm-related deaths center around gun control and the Second Amendment. But we were able to accomplish huge reductions in motor vehicle crash injuries without banning cars ever. There’s no reason an analogous approach can’t work for firearms,” said Jason Goldstick, research associate professor of emergency medicine.
ABC News -
June 1, 2022
Gun-identification technology could help speed the response during a crisis, but is limited because it does not serve as an active deterrent to school threats and their main causes, says Justin Heinze, associate professor of health behavior and health education: “It might be simple to say, ‘Yes, we’re applying a software that will allow us to identify when a weapon is coming to school.’ But at the same time, there’s a lot about the school culture … the learning environment that needs to be brought into consideration.”
Bridge Michigan -
June 1, 2022
“When a gun is present, there’s always the capacity for it to escalate to violence. And no matter how much you want to reduce the odds that might happen, it is still possible when that gun is there and not possible when it is not,” said William Lopez, assistant professor of health behavior and health education, on a Washtenaw County pilot program that involves an unarmed response to public safety calls.
WXYZ/Detroit -
June 1, 2022
“One of the important ways we can protect ourselves in the aftermath of … gun violence is to reduce exposure to the horrific images and stories about the violence,” said Sandra Graham-Bermann, professor of psychology and psychiatry. “It helps to talk with … other people about how you are feeling. It also helps to track down factual information rather than relying on sensational coverage or extreme and harmful information.”
Salon -
June 1, 2022
“Compared to cancer, or any other serious cause of death among kids, it’s still exponentially underfunded, and we’re not even talking about … gun deaths among the rest of our population,” said Rebecca Cunningham, vice president for research, and professor of emergency medicine and public health, on the historic lack of gun violence research in the United States.
Science -
May 25, 2022
“Because water safety is such an important facet of overall health, even the thought of any measurable (lead) contamination can reasonably spark community anxiety and create a stressful learning environment for a community’s youngest residents,” wrote Brian Jacob, professor of education, economics and public policy, and Samuel Owusu, research analyst at the Ford School of Public Policy, whose research shows that Flint students’ math achievement decreased after the city began using the Flint River for drinking water.
MLive -
May 25, 2022
“When I saw these manuscripts, the first thing I thought was, ‘This is a chance to finally hear what this music sounded like,'” said Patricia Hall, professor of music theory, who discovered archived manuscripts of songs performed by prisoner orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II. “This music was punitive, so they had to stay exactly in step to these marches or they would be beaten.”
Michigan Radio -
May 25, 2022
“From what we know about mass shooters, they tend to pick targets that allow them the best chance of success. The combination of target vulnerability plus attack capability plus perceived impact usually drives how these events unfold, although there is no clean scientific or mathematical algorithm that can precisely determine when and how attacks happen,” said Javed Ali, clinical associate professor of public policy.
CNN -
May 25, 2022
Hypothetically, wearing something tight around the abdomen could make one feel fuller faster, thus limiting their calorie intake, but “there is no scientific evidence and very limited, if any, data that waist trainers actually contribute to weight loss,” said Amy Rothberg, professor of internal medicine and director of the U-M Weight Management Program.
The New York Times
