In the News
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May 12, 2022
“No one burned brighter as a symbol, an icon of democracy in the 1970s and ’80s. No writer was as great, and that part of it I think is something that we need to remember,” said Youngju Ryu, associate professor and director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies, on the mixed reputation of late South Korean poet Kim Ji-Ha, a political dissident and democracy campaigner who later in life became critical of progressive student protestors.
BBC (38:45 mark) -
May 11, 2022
Frequent flyer programs are a win-win for airlines and consumers, but not so much for companies who pay for employee travel, say Yesim Orhun, associate professor of marketing, and Andreas Hagemann, assistant professor of business economics and public policy. “If travelers had to pay out of pocket, our estimates suggest that companies would save at least 7 percent of their travel costs,” Orhun said.
The Economic Times (India) -
May 11, 2022
“Flint was a financial crisis long before it was a water crisis, and those two things are intricately connected,” said Stephanie Leiser, lecturer of public policy, who noted that cities and towns across Michigan face increasingly desperate choices as they struggle to maintain their infrastructure — made worse due to a variety of factors.
Michigan Radio -
May 11, 2022
“What’s important is that the Fords and the Toyotas of the world can resume producing at a rate that satisfies new car demand,” said Daniil Manaenkov, an economist with the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “If that happens, all the people who are willing to buy new but couldn’t find anything — they will buy new, they will trade in their existing cars, and that will provide supply to the used car market and probably make them a little bit more affordable.”
The Detroit News -
May 10, 2022
Statewide wastewater surveillance will help health officials in Michigan navigate the endemic phase of COVID-19, when many people may not be tested because their symptoms are mild, says Marisa Eisenberg, professor of epidemiology, complex systems and mathematics: “Eventually if testing starts to shift toward at-home testing, we won’t have as good information. We are now tracking the virus by hospitalizations, (and) those are lagging indicators.”
The Detroit News -
May 10, 2022
Business executives have aggressively picked up the pace of selling their own company shares — a worrisome sign that they have little confidence the stock market will return to all-time highs any time soon, says Nejat Seyhun, professor of finance. A “steep deterioration of insider sentiment … likely portends additional price declines in insiders’ view,” he said.
MarketWatch -
May 10, 2022
“The big question is, ‘Will people feel like this is a benefit they can use?’” said Anna Kirkland, director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, on the protection guaranteed by federal law to employees who disclose that they are thinking about or deciding to have an abortion — a deeply personal and often-stigmatized health situation.
The Verge -
May 9, 2022
The risk of air transmission from SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, is 1,000 times higher than surface transmission, according to research by Chuanwu Xi and Rick Neitzel, both professors of environmental health sciences. “This is another layer of sophistication to evaluate major routes of transmission and to identify physical spaces where risks are higher,” Neitzel said.
DBusiness Magazine -
May 9, 2022
“The premature demand that menthol be banned in all tobacco products, if implemented, risks handing almost the entire tobacco marketplace over to cigarettes, which kill half of long-term users,” wrote Cliff Douglas, director of the U-M Tobacco Research Network. “Science has demonstrated that a variety of noncombustible products offer reduced-risk alternatives for adult smokers who are either unable or unwilling to quit using nicotine completely.”
MedPage Today -
May 9, 2022
“What the Fed is hoping to do is cool inflation a little so your paycheck will go a little further, although that will mean slowing the economy and that might mean a little less bargaining power for workers and fewer prospects of a wage rise anytime soon,” said Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, on the Federal Reserve’s recent half-percentage interest rate hike.
CNN
