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April 8, 2022
Investing in college savings accounts has positive effects on the social emotional development of kids and parental practices of lower-income households, says William Elliott III, professor of social work: “What assets give you is tangible hope. … Nobody wants to toil every day just to be able to find a way to eat — they want to have a stake in their future.” Terri Friedline, associate professor of social work, says CSAs help kids “build this future orientation and thinking about college and having that be a possible future for themselves.”
The Guardian -
April 8, 2022
“One of the things that’s really important to me is that as a society, we really start thinking about … promoting lung health,” said Meilan Han, professor of pulmonary and critical care. “The tricky part is that lung disease before the pandemic was already significantly underdiagnosed in this country; it’s not something we routinely screened for. Ultimately, we need to make diagnosing lung disease and understanding lung injury a much bigger national priority.”
WDIV/Detroit -
April 8, 2022
Research by Joshua Newell, associate professor of environment and sustainability, shows that just 1 percent of the vacant land in Detroit’s Lower Eastside is made up of private and community gardens. One reason there are not more gardens, he says, is uncertainty about whether the land can be used: “It’s hard to justify putting in a lot of infrastructure if you don’t know if you’re going to have that lot to use five years down the road.”
Michigan Radio -
April 7, 2022
While nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere may help maple tree growth in the U.S., it isn’t expected to offset the struggles the trees will face due to climate change, says Inés Ibáñez, professor of environment and sustainability, and ecology and evolutionary biology: “We consider that to be a pollutant but from the point of view of a plant, it’s almost a fertilizer, but it’s not enough to compensate for the warmer temperatures.”
MLive -
April 7, 2022
The release of personal census data for 1950 — a year on the cusp of great change in the United States and its large cities — will be useful for historians and genealogists. “Detroit at the time was a majority white city and it was the fourth-largest city in the country. And because of the auto industry, it was seen as really important for the nation’s economy,” said Stephen Ward, associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies, and the Residential College.
Detroit Free Press -
April 7, 2022
Research by Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, research fellow at the Life Sciences Institute, and colleagues seeks to better understand the Peruvian Amazon’s stingless bees, what they pollinate and the biochemical contents of their honey. “Stingless bees are bringing life back to the Amazon,” she said, by providing medicinal honey, income and pollination benefits to a region in need of help.
National Geographic -
April 6, 2022
“It’s really quite something that aphasia affects over 2 million people in the United States. And it’s actually more common than Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy combined, and yet hardly anyone knows what it is,” said Carol Persad, professor of psychiatry and director of the U-M Aphasia Program, which helps patients communicate after a stroke, head injury or illness.
WDIV/Detroit -
April 6, 2022
“People have a right to read, and people have a right to history. We also have a right to have our books read. It’s a shame we live in a country where we censor people and ideas,” said Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history, Afroamerican and African studies, and the Residential College, who filed suit against New York state prison authorities for banning her book, “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971.”
The Associated Press -
April 6, 2022
“My president asks for help, and the people in Europe still hesitate. You’re like, ‘Here we go again, the same cycles,'” said Hanna Onyshchenko, a Ukrainian doctoral student in economics. “I just want people to pay attention to history and to the experience that Ukrainians have in this war. I believe in our army, I believe in people and believe that if there will be a call, I’ll also go back home and fight for Ukraine.”
USA Today -
April 5, 2022
The congressional map Kansas lawmakers passed this year had more Republican districts than 98.8 percent of 1,000 nonpartisan, computer-drawn versions, says Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science and research associate professor at the Center for Political Studies: “This extreme, additional level of partisan bias … can be directly attributed to the map drawer’s clear efforts to favor the Republican Party.”
The Kansas City Star
