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May 26, 2021
“When a health care worker declines a COVID-19 vaccine, it affects the herd immunity of the health care workforce and potentially the safety of patients and communities that workforce serves,” said Michelle Moniz, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. “And health care workers are a trusted a voice that influences others, so vaccine hesitancy in this group could undermine efforts to widely vaccinate populations and achieve herd immunity.”
Crain's Detroit Business -
May 26, 2021
“Federal research investments should be judged neither by the titles, nor by the immediate economic returns of individual grants. Instead, we should ask how our national portfolio of research funding enables people … to contribute to a growing, innovative economy that benefits us all,” wrote Jason Owen-Smith, professor of sociology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research.
The Hill -
May 26, 2021
A research team led by John Heron, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a material that could allow the property that makes fluorescent lights and electrical transformers buzz power a new generation of more efficient computing devices and also lead to better magnetic sensors for medical and security devices.
DBusiness Magazine -
May 26, 2021
“When Black Americans are the targets (of violence), other Black Americans respond with anger and search for more information; when other people of color are targeted, African Americans respond with empathy. White and Hispanic Americans have more muted responses, regardless of the target. What does that suggest about political attitudes?” wrote Kiela Crabtree, a doctoral student in political science.
The Washington Post -
May 21, 2021
“Instead of just extracting and throwing away, how can we better live in more sustainable ways by reusing everything that we have touched before?” asks Volker Sick, professor of mechanical engineering, pondering the public’s acceptance of products containing CO2 emissions captured by technology — products such as plastics, concrete, carbonated drinks and even fuel for aircraft and automobiles.
Michigan Radio -
May 21, 2021
A new study by Michelle Fearon, research fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology, found that areas with more types of bees have less disease than sites with fewer species: “And that is a really cool finding because it suggests that if we are conserving these bees and encouraging really diverse pollinator communities, we might be also reducing the risk of virus transmission.”
WKAR Radio -
May 21, 2021
“Reducing food waste at the household level creates a chain reaction. It reduces emissions not just at the downstream tier, it also reduces emissions at every level in the supply chain, all the way back up to the farm,” said Kate Astashkina, assistant professor of technology and operations.
Bon Appétit -
May 20, 2021
Research by Chatura Vaidya and Gordon Fitch, doctoral students in ecology and evolutionary biology, found that roads pose a significant threat to bee pollination, which is essential to reproduction in many plant species. “Roads are definitely barriers for bee movement and also for pollen movement. And that is going to impact not just bee populations, but also plant populations,” Vaidya said.
Popular Science -
May 20, 2021
“Greenwood wasn’t just a place, but a state of mind. They had built this place, they had created it. It wasn’t a gift from anyone, it was their own community. In Greenwood, everybody knew they were just as good as anyone else,” said historian Scott Ellsworth, a lecturer in Afroamerican and African studies, who is part of an effort to find the remains of African American victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
CNN -
May 20, 2021
“There is this universal or global phenomenon that people have a strong desire to see themselves as honest. The big problem is how to activate and make sure people cannot rationalize a bad behavior. … They can always find a good reason why it’s OK to lie or tell a half-truth,” said Alain Cohn, assistant professor of information, in a story about whether Americans will be honest about their vaccine status in light of new mask rules.
USA Today
