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May 16, 2022
“We are not certain whether Lake Erie-area faults can produce destructive or deadly earthquakes. That’s why seismologists are interested in studying a magnitude 4-type earthquake sequence from this region,” said Yihe Huang, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, whose research team found no link between seismic activity off the Ohio shore and the recent Great Lakes high-water period.
MLive -
May 13, 2022
“Long term, they believe that they’ll move towards more renewables, but in the short term, they’re absolutely putting more carbon into the air,” said Todd Allen, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, on the looming closure of the Palisades nuclear power plant along Lake Michigan, which will likely result in more greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere.
MLive -
May 13, 2022
“If Ukraine … is to survive as an independent country, the war can only end in a negotiated withdrawal of Russian forces. That requires a conflict resolution approach, acknowledging all parties accepting that they may have legitimate interests at stake (even if the other side’s “truth” appears to be irrational),” wrote Shirli Kopelman, clinical professor of management and organizations, and colleagues.
The Detroit News -
May 13, 2022
“Even before COVID happened, we knew there was an increase in the number of women who had postpartum depression, so the pandemic added on top of that,” said Clayton Shuman, assistant professor of nursing, whose research shows that a third of women who had babies in early-to-mid-2020 experienced postpartum depression — triple pre-pandemic levels.
The Washington Post -
May 12, 2022
“More than 30 years after the People Power revolution in the Philippines brought the Marcos dictatorship to an end, a common narrative suggests that younger voters (were) keen to elect his son as president. A popular explanation for the success of the younger Marcos is generational divide — younger voters didn’t directly experience the violence, corruption and instability of the Ferdinand Marcos regime,” wrote Allen Hicken, professor of political science, and Anil Menon, a Ph.D. candidate in political science.
The Washington Post -
May 12, 2022
“There are heated debates ongoing in Japan as to the value of a smaller population with a more fully equitable sex-gender division of labor, versus a larger population,” said Jennifer Robertson, professor emerita of anthropology and the history of art. “Politicians remain tone-deaf to the reasons why women (and many men) are choosing not to marry and, if married, choosing not to have children.”
Business Insider -
May 12, 2022
“No one burned brighter as a symbol, an icon of democracy in the 1970s and ’80s. No writer was as great, and that part of it I think is something that we need to remember,” said Youngju Ryu, associate professor and director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies, on the mixed reputation of late South Korean poet Kim Ji-Ha, a political dissident and democracy campaigner who later in life became critical of progressive student protestors.
BBC (38:45 mark) -
May 11, 2022
Frequent flyer programs are a win-win for airlines and consumers, but not so much for companies who pay for employee travel, say Yesim Orhun, associate professor of marketing, and Andreas Hagemann, assistant professor of business economics and public policy. “If travelers had to pay out of pocket, our estimates suggest that companies would save at least 7 percent of their travel costs,” Orhun said.
The Economic Times (India) -
May 11, 2022
“Flint was a financial crisis long before it was a water crisis, and those two things are intricately connected,” said Stephanie Leiser, lecturer of public policy, who noted that cities and towns across Michigan face increasingly desperate choices as they struggle to maintain their infrastructure — made worse due to a variety of factors.
Michigan Radio -
May 11, 2022
“What’s important is that the Fords and the Toyotas of the world can resume producing at a rate that satisfies new car demand,” said Daniil Manaenkov, an economist with the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “If that happens, all the people who are willing to buy new but couldn’t find anything — they will buy new, they will trade in their existing cars, and that will provide supply to the used car market and probably make them a little bit more affordable.”
The Detroit News
