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October 18, 2022
“What we’ve seen over the past decade is a proliferation of courses and programmatic offerings around data science and data analytics, but often they’ve neglected the data ethics component of that work,” said James DeVaney, associate vice provost for academic innovation and founding executive director of the Center for Academic Innovation.
Fortune -
October 18, 2022
“I do think that as living in a climate-impacted world increases our stress and precarity, we will see increases in aggression online as well,” said Libby Hemphill, associate professor of information and associate research professor at the Institute for Social Research, about research showing that people are more prone to hate speech and hostile behavior when it gets hot out.
The Washington Post -
October 17, 2022
Research by Alexi Vasbinder, research fellow in internal medicine, and Salim Hayek, assistant professor of cardiology and internal medicine, found that obesity, smoking and diabetes brings greater risks of COVID-19 death than preexisting heart disease. “While patients with severe COVID commonly had signs of cardiac injury, our findings reinforce COVID-19 as a pulmonary disease with multi-organ injury related to systemic inflammation,” Hayek said.
Mint -
October 17, 2022
“Hopefully, people see themselves in the work and/or are inspired to take up a craft that they might have otherwise not even thought about as a possible creative outlet,” said artist Fatema Haque, academic program manager at the LSA Barger Leadership Institute, whose hand-embroidered portraits are on display in a new art exhibition focused on “radical change for a more just world.”
WDET Radio (Detroit) -
October 17, 2022
District leaders “were acting like rational decision-makers facing uncertainty. That’s a very different picture of school districts and school boards than, ‘They’re only focused on political partisanship,’” said Brian Jacob, professor of education, economics and public policy, whose research shows that perceived health risks, more than politics, drove most school reopening decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chalkbeat -
October 14, 2022
Matthew Bui, assistant professor of information, says EvenScore — a new crowdsourcing app that gamifies the experience of donating to political candidates and nonprofits and makes it a social one — is a creative way to address the need, but using technology to build trust in democracy can be a challenge. “It’s a ‘majority wins all’ strategy or ‘the most engaging content wins,’” he said.
Bridge Detroit -
October 14, 2022
Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutritional sciences, says attracting supermarkets can help solve food access issues in urban areas, but they’re not a cure-all: “I think it’s a good thing, but it needs to be a balance in the community. … It needs to be a mix of businesses so that people who do want to shop at the farmers’ market and garden can do that.”
The Detroit News -
October 14, 2022
Research by Jeffrey Horowitz, professor of kinesiology, shows that body fat can be metabolically healthy, regardless of someone’s weight or shape. “Healthy fat is not about the amount of fat” someone carries. It’s about how well that fat functions,” he says. What principally differentiates healthy from dysfunctional fat is the size of the fat cells. “The more small fat cells, the better.”
The Washington Post -
October 13, 2022
Research by Katherine Michelmore, associate professor of public policy, and colleagues found the expanded child tax credit made it easier for families to pay bills and buy food — and did not lead to parents dropping out of the workforce. “It seems to be helping families improve their food security and it does not seem to be coming at the cost of reducing their labor supply as many people had feared,” she said.
Michigan Radio -
October 13, 2022
“There are ways to protect the participants but also call out the bad behavior in your company. And the NDA, the way that it has been used, I just think it is problematic. It enables abusive, misogynistic behavior to continue,” said Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management, on the use of nondisclosure agreements to conceal sexual misconduct.
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