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March 3, 2021
“Humanities scholarship needs a new system for funding its infrastructure, one that recognizes university presses as mission-critical components worthy of intentional, inter-institutional commitments — rather than as auxiliary units of a few individual institutions, funded by sales and assessed only by the bottom line,” co-wrote Charles Watkinson, associate university librarian for publishing and director of the University of Michigan Press.
Inside Higher Ed -
March 3, 2021
Research by Meha Jain, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, and colleagues found that overuse of groundwater could cause winter harvests in some regions of India to fall up to two thirds by 2025. “Indian farmers are in a very challenging situation right now,” she said. “On top of groundwater depletion, there’s also going to be negative impacts of climate change in the coming decades.”
CNN -
March 3, 2021
For many Black people, constantly focusing on changing themselves to make white people feel comfortable can be exhausting and unhealthy, says Myles Durkee, assistant professor of psychology: “Black professionals … who tend to code-switch more frequently also report significantly more workplace fatigue and burnout from their current positions — simply, because they have to be a different person and mask all the cultural assets that they probably value and appreciate internally.”
WDIV/Detroit -
March 2, 2021
Craig Borum, professor of architecture, and Jen Maigret, associate professor of architecture, discussed ways to reinvent staid typologies in architecture. “We’re trying to work outside of commissions to think about ways of generating new knowledge or new approaches to materials, organization, the way we work, and then letting the practice inform some of those questions, but then also letting the research feed back into the way we think about projects,” Borum said.
The Architect's Newspaper -
March 2, 2021
Neurons activated during prior learning keep humming and building memories into the brain during sleep, say Sara Aton, associate professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, and doctoral student Brittany Clawson. “We would really like to know what’s facilitating that process of making a new association, like a particular set of neurons, or a particular stage of sleep. But for the longest time, there was really no way to test this experimentally,” Alton said.
Indo-Asian News Service -
March 2, 2021
“For decades, states have equalized the numbers of people their districts contain. But the GOP is now pushing to equalize districts’ citizen voting-age populations instead,” co-wrote Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science. “Minority representation would drop sharply if states equalized adult citizens rather than people. But the partisan balance of power would be largely unaffected.”
The Washington Post -
March 1, 2021
For COVID-19, a disease in which so much hinges on pre-existing risk factors, getting people vaccinated through their regular doctors is smart. “The British, after a record of unremitting incompetence during this pandemic, finally had the good idea of asking the National Health Service to do the vaccines,” said Scott Greer, professor of health management and policy.
The Atlantic -
March 1, 2021
“While most home buyers consider property taxes in deciding where to move, renters should also be aware of local taxes and services,” said Stephanie Leiser, lecturer in public policy. “While renters may not directly pay the property tax bill, their landlords will bake those expenses into their rent payments.”
U.S. News & World Report -
March 1, 2021
“We can’t just hand out vaccines in a colorblind fashion. We need a systemic solution that addresses the fact that Black and brown communities are likelier to be in crowded living conditions, be unable to access PPE, be unable to work from home, and likelier to work jobs in which it is difficult to social distance — all conditions created by systemic racism,” said Melissa Creary, assistant professor of health management and policy.
Vox -
February 26, 2021
“We need government intervention on a larger scale. We don’t want a state-run economy, but some of the resources need to be reallocated to balance off this powerful trend,” said Ronald Inglehart, professor emeritus of political science, whose research shows that people have become more concerned about the gap between rich and poor during the pandemic.
Reuters
