In the News
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January 23, 2023
“It’s not a sexy thing, but that’s really what we do day in and day out: Control the traffic and be the beacon for problems, and get the right people in the room when something’s going wrong,” said Christopher Friese, professor of nursing, on the crucial role that nurses play in American health care.
The New York Times -
January 20, 2023
“We’ve been losing people to other states for almost 20 years, and our fertility rate is going down,” said Reynolds Farley, professor emeritus of sociology and population studies. Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Economics, said, “Population trends represent a significant speed limit for Michigan’s long-run employment and economic growth prospects. The more people we have, especially the more working-age people we have, the more job growth will be able to sustain.”
The Detroit News -
January 20, 2023
“One of the things we’re seeing right now is that the winters are warming quite definitively. We are still seeing these cold air outbreaks that are about as cold as they’ve ever been, but they’re faster, and there’s not as much of a cold reservoir that causes cold air outbreaks,” said Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and environment and sustainability.
WEMU Radio -
January 20, 2023
Yun Zhou, assistant professor of sociology, says China’s recent attempts to encourage families to have more children haven’t worked: “What I’ve seen is women often resisted and often prioritized their paid employment and prioritized their pursuit of individualistic ideals … It remains to be seen just to what extent and how extreme the state will actually go in trying to incentivize births.”
National Public Radio -
January 19, 2023
Patrick Carter, associate professor of emergency medicine and director of the Injury Prevention Center, says there’s no evidence that gun buybacks work, either by reducing violent crime or suicide. The few studies on buybacks show that people often bring in guns “that aren’t working or are older guns, not necessarily the types involved in interpersonal violence.”
Detroit Free Press -
January 19, 2023
Research by April Zeoli, associate professor of public health and policy core director of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, demonstrates the efficacy of red flag laws, which allow police to remove guns from people deemed dangerous: “The big conclusion is that these really are being used in cases of multiple-victim mass shooting threats. And these threats are largely determined to be credible by judges.”
The New York Times -
January 19, 2023
“This is about amending or fixing capitalism … students are jumping over themselves to get into these programs,” said Andy Hoffman, professor of sustainable enterprise, who has launched a series of programs called “Management as a Calling” to help students who are interested in pursuing careers focused around meaning, purpose and service.
Financial Times -
January 18, 2023
“Exercise equipment … (doesn’t) have great recycling and takeback markets,” said Shelie Miller, professor of environment and sustainability. “These are larger appliances that have a lot of high-value materials, including the equipment itself and the electronics. You have a lot of stock out there but not a whole lot of guidance for consumers to figure out what to do with these things when they’re done with them.”
Consumer Reports -
January 18, 2023
“We’ve known for a long time that masks prevent the spread of COVID, but (they) also prevent the spread of a lot of other viruses that we are having in the community,” said Emily Martin, associate professor of epidemiology. “The more masks that we have in schools right now … the less virus we’re going to have in the air and the more likely we are to keep the doors of our schools open longer.”
Michigan Radio -
January 18, 2023
“The harm caused by Exxon has been huge. They knew that fossil fuels, including oil and natural gas, would greatly alter the planet’s climate in ways that would be costly in terms of lives, human suffering and economic impacts. And yet …they choose to publicly downplay the problem of climate change and the dangers it poses to people and the planet,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability.
The Associated Press
