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February 3, 2022
Marcus Collins, clinical assistant professor of marketing, says General Motors, which will bring 30 new electric vehicles to market in the next three years, needs to focus its future marketing to connect better with EV enthusiasts, who will then spread the word to the masses. “You gotta get the regular people, you and me, who are on the Reddits, having these conversations,” he said. “(GM) hasn’t done it in a distinguished way. It’s no shade on them, it’s just a hard thing to do.”
Detroit Free Press -
February 3, 2022
“These kinds of studies help us understand how resilient (trees) are likely to be in the face of climate change. And the less resilient they are just adds more information and pressure on us to solve the climate crisis sooner rather than later,” said Peter Reich, director of the Institute for Global Change Biology, whose research shows more than 9,000 types of trees have yet to be discovered — nearly a third of them vulnerable to climate change.
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February 2, 2022
There was a time when double-clicking simply meant to press one of the buttons on your computer mouse in quick succession, but in business, the term also means to take a closer look at something. “I think one of the things that annoys people about jargon is that it can be used a lot, but we don’t want to lose the fact that there’s often creativity here as well,” said LSA Dean Anne Curzan, professor of English language and literature, linguistics, and education.
Michigan Radio -
February 2, 2022
Nearly a quarter of Americans say it’s sometimes OK to use violence against the government — and one in 10 say violence is justified right now, according to a new poll. The numbers are not especially surprising to Christian Davenport, professor of political science, who is not a fan of the use of polls exclusively to determine a populace’s potential for violence. “Individuals will say a great number of things on a poll,” he said, “but never show up for anything.”
WEMU Radio -
February 2, 2022
Valeria Valbuena, a general surgery resident, and colleagues found that Pulse Ox devices are less accurate in detecting oxygen in the blood of patients with darker skin: “The Pulse Oximeter works by shining light through your skin, and there are a number of things that can affect how that light interacts with the particles in your blood that carry the oxygen, and one of those things is melanin. … We need as a field to push for equitable medical design, so that devices … work just as well for patients of different races, ethnicities and different genders.”
WDIV/Detroit -
February 1, 2022
“I think just putting that information out there, and people being able to calculate their programs … this data reporting and analysis allows that to happen,” said Tony Reames, assistant professor of environment and sustainability and senior adviser to the Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, about language to be included in guidance to state energy offices and on grants that calls for at least 40 percent of benefits from federal investments in climate and clean energy be delivered to disadvantaged communities.
Bloomberg Law -
February 1, 2022
Nationwide, a record 14.5 million people signed up for a 2022 marketplace health plan during the latest open enrollment — which policy experts attribute to more generous premium and deductible subsidies that came with the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan relief package that President Biden signed last March. “That was definitely the biggest change and why we saw such high enrollment this year,” said Samantha Iovan, health policy senior project manager at the Center for Health and Research Transformation.
Detroit Free Press -
February 1, 2022
“Individuals are more than willing to give up someone else’s freedom in order to protect their own safety. And similarly, people are willing to give up other people’s safety to protect their own freedom. … Freedom of speech is particularly valuable if and only if you also have a strong sense of personal safety,” said Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer.
The Chronicle of Higher Education -
January 31, 2022
“Given further tension resulting from Russia’s troop buildup near Ukraine’s border, I don’t think there is much of a chance that a deal or a (prisoner) swap could be developed,” said Melvyn Levitsky, clinical professor of public policy, on efforts to free Michigan’s Paul Whelan, jailed in Russia since 2018 for alleged spying. “Because we are dealing with someone as Machiavellian and ruthless as Putin, I think (Whelan’s imminent release), unfortunately, (is) less likely,” said Javed Ali, clinical associate professor of public policy.
The Detroit News -
January 31, 2022
“If lab leaders look at the people they train as a commodity, then they can get stuck in this idea that their students can go only into academia. … To me, the end goal is to get someone to where they want to go by training them to be an excellent scientist,” said Regina Baucom, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
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