In the News
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June 30, 2021
“The next generation, and generations, we really need to reduce our emissions. We’re in a climate crisis. We have a small window to act,” said Gregory Keoleian, professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Systems, whose research shows that an energy-efficient house can cut carbon emissions by more than 60 percent over the home’s 50-year lifecycle.
CNBC -
June 30, 2021
“We still have to pay attention to the social determinants of health that were occurring before the pandemic, which made Black and brown communities at a higher risk of dying of the coronavirus. The root causes of co-morbidities aren’t biological; they’re social,” said Melissa Creary, assistant professor of health management and policy, who worries that Black Americans will continue to be disproportionately affected by the pandemic in the long term.
NBC News -
June 30, 2021
“It’s true, the founding generation didn’t intend Washington, D.C., to be a state, but the founding generation also didn’t intend to create a situation in which 700,000 Americans would have no voting representation in Congress. For the founders, no principle was more central to the Constitution than representative government,” said Richard Primus, professor of law.
National Public Radio -
June 30, 2021
“These bills would harm students by keeping them from learning about the complexity of our larger society and their place in it, depriving them of a fully rounded education,” said Anthony Mora, associate professor of history and American culture, on the GOP push in many states to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.
The New Republic -
June 23, 2021
More than half of Detroit public school students said they experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression and 23 percent considered attempting suicide before the pandemic. “Given the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on communities of color, the need for mental health support for Detroit students is even greater now,” said Robin Jacob, co-director of the U-M Youth Policy Lab. Elizabeth Koschmann, director of U-M’s TRAILS program, said leveraging school and community resources already in place may be an effective strategy.
The Detroit News -
June 23, 2021
Research by Jennifer Erb-Downward, senior research associate at Poverty Solutions, found that homeless students face disciplinary action in Michigan public schools at a higher rate than their always-housed peers: “When you suspend or expel a child from school who’s homeless or housing unstable, you’re really removing from them the one location of consistency and stability that they have.”
Bridge Michigan -
June 23, 2021
“The Southwest is getting hammered by climate change harder than almost any other part of the country, apart from perhaps coastal cities. And as bad as it might seem today, this is about as good as it’s going to get if we don’t get global warming under control,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, commenting on a combination of the worst drought in two decades and a record-breaking heat wave in the American West.
The New York Times -
June 23, 2021
“George Floyd’s death reminded us that our inability to control what happens means that we’re all vulnerable. … That’s the power and the future of American democracy — our ability to remind one another that we are connected and that democracy in all of its forms is pretty fragile,” said Earl Lewis, professor of history, Afroamerican and African studies, and public policy, and founding director of the Center for Social Solutions.
The Associated Press -
June 16, 2021
A. Oveta Fuller, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, says that as the country opens up, she fears that unvaccinated children who have been largely insulated from the virus would begin to bear the burden of disease: “We haven’t seen it for the children because they have been isolated, or there are other mitigations. I think we are in an emergency situation, and we will be going into winter.”
The Washington Post -
June 16, 2021
Julian Davis Mortenson, professor of law, who begins his constitutional law course with the infamous Dred Scott case, says that ruling unwittingly “conveys the essence of Critical Race Theory to a person encountering these ideas for the first time: This is the Supreme Court explaining how the United States has been super racist forever and endorsing the racism. It’s a powerful way for students to confront the racism that has been central to the United States.”
The New Yorker
