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October 23, 2023
“No one can be surprised by increased labor actions in health care,” said Christopher Friese, professor of nursing and of health management and policy. “Too few institutions have learned the lessons from the pandemic and put the needs of their workforce as their organizational priority. In fact, many institutions have regressed and have asked their workforce to do more work with less support and resources.”
Crain's Detroit Business -
October 20, 2023
“The virus is not the explosive virus it was, but it remains in the population, preying on people who are more susceptible to disease,” said immunologist James Baker, professor emeritus of internal medicine and biomedical engineering, on the falling rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths compared to a year ago.
Bridge Michigan -
October 20, 2023
“It’s extremely intense. It’s like you take all of the light that is incident on the Earth and focus it into a spot that’s the size of a human hair. It’s a really, really powerful burst of light but only for a … very, very short pulse,” said Karl Krushelnick, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, about U-M’s Zeus, the country’s most powerful laser with applications in medicine and materials science.
WWJ Radio (Detroit) -
October 20, 2023
“In many parts of the world, the air pollution monitoring network is inadequate, so people just don’t know how bad pollution is in their neighborhoods. And even when they have a monitor nearby, households might not be aware of the full range of health damages that they could be experiencing,” said Catherine Hausman, associate professor of public policy.
BBC -
October 19, 2023
Politicians are turning Chinese investments in two multibillion-dollar battery plants in the midwest into an election “wedge issue,” said Mary Gallagher, professor of political science: “This strategy, which is a short-term strategy to win elections, is shortchanging the U.S.’s ability to compete in the long term.”
MLive -
October 19, 2023
The fairest outcome in the Google antitrust trial would be an across-the-board ban on all default agreements between search engines and smartphones and web browsers, said Florian Schaub, associate professor of information: “If people still choose to use Google, that is at least a consumer choice, which would be better than having people stick to a default because they are conditioned to that default.”
The Associated Press -
October 19, 2023
“What many parents are missing is the recognition that over the long term, there are negative consequences to children not having sufficient opportunities to progress toward independence,” said Sarah Clark, associate director of Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, whose research shows many parents are guilty of “helicopter” parenting even when they think they aren’t.
U.S. News & World Report -
October 18, 2023
“Instead of reconnecting communities, it is going to make a bigger gulf between downtown and the east side. Instead of being safer for people who are walking or biking, particularly in the east-west direction, it’s going to be more dangerous,” said Bryan Boyer, assistant professor of practice in architecture, on the redesign of Detroit’s I-375 highway into a six-lane boulevard.
WXYZ/Detroit -
October 18, 2023
Thinking about exercise in all-or-nothing terms — “I need at least 30 minutes or there’s no point.” — is the enemy of consistency. You want to adopt the mindset that “any and all movement is worth it, and everything counts,” said Michelle Segar, associate research scientist at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
The Wall Street Journal -
October 18, 2023
“Each chapter in that history helps us understand why good people can look at this problem from such different perspectives and feel earnestly they are on the right side of this,” said John Ciorciari, professor of public policy, regarding the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
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