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September 11, 2023
As part of Japan’s X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission to space, Lia Corrales, assistant professor of astronomy, will analyze the composition of interstellar dust to glean insight into the chemical evolution of our universe. She sees XRISM as “a pioneer vehicle” that represents “the next step in X-ray observations.”
The New York Times -
September 8, 2023
“The hope is to make better design choices in the future but also retrofit what’s there. … There’s little choices that seem small but when you … add them all up, it makes a big difference,” said Keenan Gibbons, lecturer in environment and sustainability, who is using infrared drones to uncover the ways we’ve made our cities hot by architectural design.
CNN -
September 8, 2023
“Men’s labor force participation has been growing, but women’s has been growing by just a tiny bit more,” said Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics. “A lot of people, myself included, were really worried that the pandemic would knock these women off course and we would take decades to get back to where we were in 2019.”
Marketplace -
September 8, 2023
“Just because the Medicare and Medicaid programs are so lucrative, it doesn’t mean that the drug manufacturers are being coerced into participating. So for them to say that this is somehow a price control and that they’re somehow bereft of any free choice, well, that’s a consequence of just how lavishly we spend for prescription drugs,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law.
National Public Radio -
September 7, 2023
While Detroit is expected to continue its steady economic recovery, only 36 percent of its residents currently make a living wage — a lower percentage than other large cities in the Midwest. “The most powerful explanation that we found is education. (It) explained about a third of the gap between Detroit and its peer cities,” said Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Economics.
CBS News Detroit -
September 7, 2023
Research by Aya Waller-Bey, doctoral student in sociology, shows that many minority students believe college admissions essays must describe struggle and adversity in order to signal race: “Black people, in particular, feel that the only narrative they should share about their identities and backgrounds is a story about trauma. I find that harmful because it diminishes the positive experiences of our young people.”
Michigan Chronicle -
September 7, 2023
Meha Jain, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, says climate change could cause India’s groundwater supply to shrink between 2041 and 2080 at three times the present rate: “If you run out of groundwater, there aren’t other quick fixes, like providing canal irrigation, that can get you to the same level of production.”
The New York Times -
September 6, 2023
“I think climate anxiety … used to be something that we thought about in terms of this long-term feeling of anxiety about where the planet as a whole is going,” said Sue Anne Bell, assistant professor of nursing. “I think more and more that the idea of climate anxiety is about, ‘Will I be able to get insurance on my house? Is my house going to flood? Am I going to be without power for an extended period of time?’”
MLive -
September 6, 2023
“Regional public universities are responsive to local needs because we are at the heart of our communities. … We design our teaching and service and engage in research based on the needs and ethos of our communities,” co-wrote Domenico Grasso, chancellor of UM-Dearborn. “RPUs contribute in essential ways to educate the Michigan workforce, build diverse communities and train tomorrow’s practitioners and leaders.”
Bridge Michigan -
September 6, 2023
The first U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant BA.2.86 — identified last month at a U-M lab — has more than 30 new mutations. “All of the risk assessments for this variant haven’t been done yet … (but) this virus might be better at evading preexisting immunity than some of the prior variants,” said Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology. “If it takes off, how severe or virulent will it be? That’s the other piece of it because we are going to see waves of lots of transmission,” said Joseph Eisenberg, professor of epidemiology. “So we want to be able to … minimize the number of severe cases and hospitalizations.”
Detroit Free Press
