In the News
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March 17, 2022
“Putin has prepared for this eventuality for a long time, and has taken a lot of concerted actions to make sure he’s not vulnerable,” said Adam Casey, postdoctoral fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. “There’s just a lot of different failsafe measures that Putin has built over the years that are oriented toward preventing a coup.”
Vox -
March 16, 2022
“If you can track the emotions of your employees or your co-workers by how they use emoji, then you can identify early signals that they may be experiencing mental problems like burnout. You don’t even need to look at their work productivity or the actual words they say — just look at how they use emoji,” said Qiaozhu Mei, professor of information.
Safety+Health -
March 16, 2022
Research by Michele Heisler, professor of public health and internal medicine, and colleagues shows that “excited delirium” has become a catch-all for deaths occurring in the context of law enforcement restraint and should be abandoned: “People become agitated or delirious due to multiple factors, ranging from alcohol withdrawal, drug overdose, psychosis. … These underlying causes require medical attention, rather than forcible restraint by police.”
CNN -
March 16, 2022
“Right now, the market is a Wild West for the concern of consumer protection. Regulation is long overdue,” said Andrew Wu, assistant professor of finance, and technology and operations, who believes the U.S. is getting closer to a digital dollar and backs President Biden’s recent executive order to create an oversight committee to look into cryptocurrency.
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March 15, 2022
The quick development of COVID-19 vaccines and their swift approval by the FDA was a stellar accomplishment of the pandemic, says Arnold Monto, professor emeritus of epidemiology: “We’ve had it for drugs, but this is the first time we’ve had emergency use authorizations for vaccines.” Howard Markel, professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine, says combined with public health measures, the vaccine saved millions of lives.
The Detroit News -
March 15, 2022
Vladimir Putin sees athletic endeavor as symbolic of Russia’s stature and ambition, says Andrei Markovits, professor of political science, amid the ever-growing sports sanctions against Russia: “The Olympics (and other global sports events) become a form of nationalistic orgy, because it’s such an aphrodisiac, such an unbelievable drug.”
The Christian Science Monitor -
March 15, 2022
While various COVID-19 treatments are now available, none are as effective as the vaccine, says Jason Pogue, clinical professor of pharmacy: “Particularly if you’ve gotten boosted, your likelihood of hospitalization or deaths has gone down by over 90 percent and none of these therapies have that same level of efficacy consistently.”
ABC News -
March 14, 2022
“It’s still not as bad (as 2008). Still, it might get quite bad,” said Daniil Manaenkov, an economist with the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, who won’t be surprised if gas prices hit $5 per gallon nationwide. Aaron Kall, director of Michigan Debate, said, “It’s a minor inconvenience, but certainly nothing in comparison to what’s happening in Ukraine and the sacrifices that everybody else in the country and the world are making.”
The Detroit News -
March 14, 2022
“Keep in mind that we’re only (a little more than) two weeks into what will likely be a protracted, possibly multiyear conflict. This will be an order of magnitude beyond Russia’s rebuilding efforts in Chechnya, in terms of sheer scale,” said Yuri Zhukov, associate professor of political science, comparing the cost of rebuilding Ukraine — should it fall to Russia — to that of the Chechen Republic after two wars there in the 1990s.
Newsweek -
March 14, 2022
“I hate to say this, but industrialized agriculture tends to be a lot more efficient at growing food, and often … from a climate perspective, industrial agriculture has been shown to have slightly lower climate emissions than some of the local and organic producers that tend to have lower yields, have a lot more inputs to the farm,” said Shelie Miller, professor of environment and sustainability and director of the Program in Environment. (Note: Miller’s segment begins at about the 28:30-minute mark of the link below)
BBC
