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April 14, 2022
“Hate crimes have been the focus of a lot of public discussion, advocacy and research. However, to focus only on hate crimes is to miss the bigger story of racism,” said Melissa Borja, assistant professor of American culture. “While some forms of racism involve violent hate crimes, the vast majority of expressions of anti-Asian racism do not.”
PBS NewsHour -
April 13, 2022
William Chey, professor of gastroenterology and nutritional sciences, says changing what’s on the menu is a key tool for people to manage irritable bowel syndrome: “When I started to talk about diet as an important part of treating patients with IBS, people literally laughed at me. But now almost every gastroenterologist accepts that diet is an important part of the solution.”
National Public Radio -
April 13, 2022
A Washington state bill that requires new passenger and light duty vehicles to be electric beginning in 2030 is “aggressive” but necessary, says Greg Keoleian, professor of environment and sustainability: “Having the states set policies that are going to ensure sales are going to be electric will be important for the industry making the vehicles. You’ve got to create a market in order for (automakers) to get moving.”
ABC News -
April 13, 2022
As hospitals increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to identify and treat patients most at risk, they must “understand when AI is not working as intended and prioritize problems based on whether they are solvable rather than simply what AI tools are available,” said Karandeep Singh, assistant professor of information, learning health and internal medicine.
The Wall Street Journal -
April 12, 2022
“It felt like ‘Back to the Future’ all over again, where you have legislators who are trying to position themselves at a point where there’s demand for more oil and gas production fast — and lower prices. And in this case, things like greenhouse gas emissions seemingly go out the window,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and the environment, on Democrats’ recent calls for oil companies to ramp up production.
E&E News -
April 12, 2022
“I’m falling on the ‘seems like a bad idea right now’ side of things, at least on surface value,” said Sarita Schoenebeck, associate professor of information, who is concerned that Twitter’s plans to include an edit button will cause confusion. “I don’t think, from an interface design perspective, it would make it clear what the trajectory of a tweet was.”
WIRED -
April 12, 2022
“The Department of Justice has rarely lost high-profile counterterrorism cases based on successful entrapment claims, and this development punches a hole in that relatively unblemished track record the past two decades,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice in public policy, on a jury’s failure to convict four suspects in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
ABC News -
April 11, 2022
The 5% decline in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 count of Detroit’s population made the city an “outlier” among major U.S. cities, said Jeffrey Morenoff, professor of sociology and public policy. A mix of factors, including a late start and underresourced Census teams, likely led to the undercount, “but it is fair to say that people of color, especially Blacks and Latinos nationwide, have probably been undercounted, more so than others.”
Michigan Radio -
April 11, 2022
The way flu vaccines are updated each year could be a model for the future of coronavirus vaccines, says Oveta Fuller, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s coronavirus advisory committee: “We need to remind ourselves … that we are very new in this pandemic. … The important thing here is that the public understands how complex this is.”
CNN -
April 11, 2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could argue that Elon Musk, who delayed disclosure of his stake in Twitter and may have earned $156 million, needs to part with the theoretical profit, but that would be a long shot, said Adam Pritchard, professor of law.
The Washington Post
