In the News
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January 17, 2022
“Detroit’s single family housing market is in dire need of new ideas and programs to make home ownership more available to median income households. The conventional mortgage market is not working in the city, and has not worked for many years,” co-wrote Trina Shanks, professor of social work. “We are in a once-in-a-lifetime moment, where substantive federal investments are flowing into Detroit. Let’s focus these infrastructure investments in a way that benefits Detroiters.”
Detroit Free Press -
January 14, 2022
The abrupt shift to remote learning in spring 2020 had a negative impact on students and parents, says Pamela Davis-Kean, professor of psychology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research: “Education, since the Industrial Revolution, has been in the institution of schooling. We moved it back to the home. The parents were the ones who had to make sure to connect the kids. They had to have the resources in the home to connect the kids.”
WXYZ/Detroit -
January 14, 2022
“I would not be surprised that the sponsors would remain silent. You could potentially lose business,” said Dae Hee Kwak, associate professor of sport management and director of the Center for Sports Marketing, on the potential hazards for major corporate sponsors of the Beijing Winter Olympics — companies trying to remain quiet about China’s human rights record.
The Washington Post -
January 14, 2022
Research led by Julie Boland, professor of linguistics and psychology, says difficulty in finding a turn to speak during a Zoom call disrupts the natural flow of in-person conversation, resulting in Zoom fatigue: “It can include that we don’t make the same kind of eye contact, for example, or that nonvisual cues don’t work as well.”
Michigan Radio -
January 13, 2022
Secure gun storage and behavioral intervention programs for at-risk children are keys to preventing kids from getting weapons and averting violence, especially in high-stress times or when a child is experiencing depression, says Patrick Carter, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the Injury Prevention Center: “They prevent us from getting to the point where something like (a shooting or a suicide) happens.”
The Detroit News -
January 13, 2022
“Despite truly remarkable advances in our capacity to diagnose and treat disease in the 21st century, our ability to treat lung disease is still profoundly primitive — and, intensified by the pandemic, that deficit has tragic results,” wrote Meilan Han, professor of pulmonary and critical care. “But despite an influx of funding for COVID-19 research, shockingly little has gone specifically to understanding lung damage and how to treat it. While vaccines are incredibly important … lung health too must be a national priority.”
Los Angeles Times -
January 13, 2022
“While the protests were sparked by outrage over a dramatic rise in fuel prices, they were energized by a shared grievance with much deeper roots — the failed promise of reforms dating back to 1991, when Kazakhstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union,” co-wrote Pauline Jones, professor of political science, about the recent deadly riots in the Central Asian nation.
The Washington Post -
January 12, 2022
“Early onset alcohol and other drug use has been shown to be a consistent risk factor for prescription drug misuse,” said Sean Estaban McCabe, professor of nursing and director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health, whose research shows that nearly half of all adults, ages 18-50, have had at least one instance of prescription drug misuse.
HCPLive -
January 12, 2022
While people in the bottom third of incomes have seen wages rise, those in the middle third haven’t seen the same gains, says Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics: “Things are getting more expensive for them, and their wages aren’t quite keeping up. I think that’s where you’re seeing some of the pain from households who are saying, ‘Hey, I’m worse off than I was a year ago.’”
Marketplace -
January 12, 2022
The false narrative that African Americans engage in risky health behaviors places undue stress on Black youth seeking to understand facts about COVID-19, says Riana Elyse Anderson, assistant professor of health behavior and health education: “Families who are already talking to their children about race-related issues now have to (address) the disparate outcomes of this virus … adding yet more stress to what children already contend with.”
Inside Higher Education
