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August 25, 2021
“It’s using the most vulnerable tenants as a stick to enforce code compliance. At the end of the day, you’re withholding funds tenants need to pay their rent and increasing the length of precarity,” said Alexa Eisenberg, research fellow in public health and Poverty Solutions, on the city of Detroit’s withholding of rent relief money from landlords until they become compliant with city codes.
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August 25, 2021
“Young adults in the United States want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and return to normal. Most youth also say they will continue mitigating behaviors like wearing masks even after vaccination,” said Stephen Gorga, assistant professor of pediatrics, whose research found that about 75 percent of people ages 14-24 plan to get the shot.
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August 18, 2021
“We have a situation in which the White House is essentially giving a private gallerist that no one has ever heard of a political position,” said Joan Kee, professor of history of art, on the announcement by a small New York City gallery that it plans to sell 15 works by President Biden’s son, Hunter, for as much as $500,000 apiece.
The New York Times -
August 18, 2021
“We’ve known for over a decade that nurses have been concerned about their workloads. … There is also a unique combination of their personal health at risk, their loved ones’ safety, and then the societal split in our approach to this public health crisis. … We’re on a hamster wheel here, where nurses just can’t get off,” said Christopher Friese, professor of nursing and health management and policy.
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August 18, 2021
“She seems to me to be like many Black women opera singers in not having easily categorizable voices. … We think of her as the only one, and in many ways she’s the only one who made it to the top. But she isn’t just this crazy anomaly. … I would love someone to listen to Marian Anderson’s recordings and think, ‘Who else is out there?’” said Naomi André, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, women’s studies and Residential College.
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August 18, 2021
Volker Sick, professor of mechanical engineering, and Sue Anne Bell, assistant professor of nursing, discussed the recent UN report on climate change. “We don’t have a silver bullet, one thing that fixes everything. So we need individual action, we need policy action, new technology,” Sick said. Bell said she is “all about picking one thing at a time and trying to stick with it, rather than being overwhelmed with unsustainable changes.”
Los Angeles Times -
August 11, 2021
The level of COVID-19 testing in schools necessary to stop outbreaks would be higher than most schools could manage, says Jon Zelner, professor of epidemiology, who believes masking could be the key to a somewhat regular fall semester: “The density of testing that you need to do to get some bang for your buck is pretty high. … Testing is useful from a confirmatory perspective and for tracing contacts and so forth, but ultimately the horse is kind of out of the barn at that point.”
NBC Today -
August 11, 2021
“States aren’t maxing out what’s allowed under federal rules to really subsidize these projects for low-income communities,” said Sara Hughes, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, whose research shows that, over the past decade, states have been less likely to spend money from EPA’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund program on smaller and more diverse communities.
Greenwire -
August 11, 2021
“Americans are very good at finding reasons why you are great even if you fail,” but in Japan, “even if you succeed, you have to apologize,” said Shinobu Kitayama, professor of psychology, commenting on the practice by Japanese Olympic athletes to apologize profusely when falling short of a gold medal — sometimes, even after winning silver.
The New York Times -
August 11, 2021
New developments in running shoe design and a fast track saw many records broken at the Tokyo Olympics, but Geoff Burns, a research fellow at the Exercise & Sport Science Initiative, says that advances in technology might have drawbacks: “You don’t know exactly how much of that performance is due to the technology. When you have an athlete break a record, they no longer get total ownership over breaking that record. It’s that Faustian bargain you make.”
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