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February 20, 2024
Jeremy Kress, assistant professor of business law, believes dual directorships create a conflict of interest: “When a bank’s directors also sit on the board of the bank’s holding company, the directors have an incentive to allow the holding company … to take advantage of the bank and thereby benefit from federal safety net subsidies.”
Bloomberg Law -
February 19, 2024
“Biden’s messaging that the economy is doing well under him hasn’t convinced many people. Despite his repeated statements and despite government numbers that support him, he hasn’t moved the disapproval needle,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business.
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February 19, 2024
Despite the release of two new Alzheimer’s drugs since 2021, “dementia is going to be with us for the foreseeable future, even with these potential breakthroughs,” said Kenneth Langa, professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy. “It’s going to get harder and harder as the numbers go up. We need to figure this out.”
National Geographic -
February 19, 2024
“They are to be used in times of crisis when someone is suicidal or when someone is actively at risk of harming someone else. They are not going to affect law-abiding firearm owners who are not in danger of harming themselves or others,” said April Zeoli, associate professor of public health and policy core director at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, about Michigan’s new red flag law that allows judges to remove guns from someone believed to be dangerous.
WWJ Radio -
February 16, 2024
“Existing data on communities that have stopped (water) fluoridation show an (increase in dental decay). When weighing benefits and risks, every health organization clearly supports this important public health method,” said Margherita Fontana, professor of dentistry.
Great Lakes Echo -
February 16, 2024
“The punchline is that many auditors don’t lose their jobs, and the ones that do, get other jobs quite easily,” said Mihir Mehta, assistant professor of accounting, who found that public company external auditors involved in professional misconduct do not appear to suffer greatly professionally or financially.
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February 16, 2024
“Ideas about intimate racial mixing are one of our last hushed taboos,” wrote Apryl Williams, assistant professor of communication and media, and digital studies. “Though, as a collective, we may appear to move away from the reality of racial injustice associated with prohibiting interracial marriage, the discourse of racial purity is an ever-present tenor in American politics and in our technologies.
TIME -
February 15, 2024
More than 4,000 years ago, a scribe in ancient Mesopotamia … wrote a curious word on a clay tablet in Sumerian: “ušum-gal” — believed to be the oldest known word for dragon. “I imagine that the ušum-gal was probably originally a type of lion or other wild carnivore and gradually adopted more mythological associations over hundreds of years,” said Jay Crisostomo, associate professor of Middle East studies.
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February 15, 2024
“It might not be something as explicit as ‘I’m not hiring you because you’re trans,’ but ‘I’m not hiring you because you don’t match my idea of what a woman should look like,’” said Shanna Kattari, associate professor of social work, who believes that discrimination plays a role in the high unemployment rates among transgender people.
Marketplace -
February 15, 2024
“The overwhelming majority of Republicans think that poor people, who maybe are getting food stamps or some kind of public assistance, are lazy and life is easy for them,” said Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy. “Anyone who’s actually been poor knows that it’s in fact a lot of work to be poor. … A lot of poverty is structural. It has nothing to do with the virtues and vices of individuals.”
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