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January 10, 2024
“We’re seeing a lot more accessories become fashion items and status symbols. Now, the water bottle and a kind of athleisure is ascendant, and we need the matching product to boot,” said Justin Huang, assistant professor of marketing, on the craze surrounding Stanley’s limited-edition Valentines Day-themed insulated cups.
Quartz -
January 10, 2024
“It’s a huge drag on housing affordability. And it’s a huge impediment for cities fulfilling their destiny, which is enabling human interaction. Because what parking does is it separates land uses, separates people. It makes cities have a much more sprawling physical profile than they otherwise would have,” said Jonathan Levine, professor of urban and regional planning.
National Public Radio -
January 10, 2024
“It is imperative that they can stay in one place … that they can build a sense of community, and really feel like they have a place here in the U.S.,” said Ashley Cureton, assistant professor of social work, who researches the academic and emotional needs of refugee youths and their families.
The Boston Globe -
December 18, 2023
“We hope these findings will help inform policymakers and benefit plan designers who are grappling with the tradeoffs of cost and long-term benefit when it comes to these medications,” said Lauren Oshman, professor of family medicine, who, along with Jeffrey Kullgren, associate professor of internal medicine, found that 83% of older adults think insurance companies and Medicare should pay for weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy or Zepbound.
U.S. News & World Report -
December 18, 2023
“There are some species that are more able to adapt to rapid changes, and maybe the open question is, how adaptable are monarchs? It seems like they’re a lot more adaptable than we give them credit for,” said D. André Green, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, who studies the migration of monarch butterflies.
National Geographic -
December 18, 2023
“It’s not that being well educated, having a stable income, being able to live in a community that is suffering less environmental racism don’t do positive things” for Black women’s health, “but you have to do the cost-benefit analysis, and there are costs,” said Arline Geronimus, professor of public health, referring to the health effects of unrelenting stress caused by social inequality.
The Washington Post -
December 15, 2023
“I didn’t grow up seeing Bangladeshi Americans in the media … and I didn’t see art created about or for us, either,” said fiber artist Fatema Haque, academic program manager at the Barger Leadership Institute, whose exhibition at the Shapiro Library showcases the generations, lives and culture of Bangladeshi Americans.
WDET Radio -
December 15, 2023
As manufacturing becomes more high-tech, modern tools have rendered many work inspection jobs obsolete, causing strife between workers and management. “It won’t be about how a human will check their own work or how a machine can check the work. But about how humans and machines can work together to identify issues,” said Bogdan Epureanu, professor of mechanical engineering.
The Wall Street Journal -
December 15, 2023
The devaluation and denigration of Black hair is psychologically damaging and reflects a politics of respectability, writes Kevin Cokley, professor of psychology: “It is the result of years of socialization that places white aesthetics and the approximation of whiteness as the cultural standard by which all racial and ethnic groups are compared.”
Psychology Today -
December 14, 2023
An exhibit at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology uses ancient Roman artifacts and light projection to breathe life into 2,000-year-old wall fragments. “We have this kind of image of Rome as whitewashed and monochrome and staid, but it’s not a good reflection of the vibrancy and diversity of the ancient world,” said Nicola Barham, assistant curator and assistant professor of history of art.
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