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February 28, 2025
Richard Primus, professor of law, says that President Trump “is dismantling watchdog offices and other parts of the public integrity apparatus for two reasons, one backward-looking and one forward-looking. The backward-looking reason is revenge. Some of these people and offices have stood in his way before or tried to hold him accountable for his actions. So he wants to destroy them. The forward-looking reason is his desire to use his power corruptly.”
The New York Times -
February 28, 2025
“Sense of belonging and sense of community are deeply important to their ability to matriculate successfully and then to persist from semester to semester, year to year and also towards graduation,” said Charles H. F. Davis III, assistant professor of education, who — in light of the federal directive to ax race-conscious practices and programming — expects more students of color to enroll at institutions where they face fewer hurdles, rather than more selective universities that lack targeted supports.
Inside Higher Ed -
February 27, 2025
“The idea of weathering was connoting sort of how a rock, for example, would be weathered by hundreds of years of rain and wind. It’s gonna affect it (and) absolutely wear it down. I like the word weathering in particular, because it also has another meaning, which is that you weather the storm,” said Arline Geronimus, professor of health behavior and health equity, who coined the term “weathering” to describe the corrosive effects of systemic oppression on marginalized people’s bodies.
CBS News -
February 27, 2025
A federal ban on funding for gender-affirming care is “an extremely prejudicial executive order that actually says who you are is not welcome, who you are is wrong. It sends a very chilling message (that) is felt differently by people who have different social identities … people who have social networks, more or less, around them to withstand the hurt that those things cause,” said Rogério Pinto, professor of social work, and of theatre and drama.
Michigan Public -
February 27, 2025
If evidence seized in a warrantless drug raid is critical to a case, “that would be a serious Fourth Amendment violation that would result in reversal on appeal,” said Eve Brensike Primus, professor of law. “We want police to go to a magistrate or judge to get a warrant before they search a home because homes are so private, and we want a judicial check on the police officer’s determination of probable cause beforehand.”
The New York Times -
February 26, 2025
“I think getting clean water, and access to clean water, has been a big problem for a long time. But we just keep making these types of steps and leaps, and one day we’ll have a good solution to the problem,” said Jovan Kamcev, assistant professor of chemical engineering and macromolecular science and engineering, who helped develop technology that removes boron from seawater without using costly chemicals.
Concentrate -
February 26, 2025
Women can safely skip the unpleasant speculum-based exam for HPV screening and instead test for the virus themselves using a swab, says Diane Harper, professor of family medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology: “We should try to make (the test) a more comfortable experience. … The swabs cannot replace having a conversation with your doctor. However, (they) can save the vast majority of women from getting unnecessary speculum tests.”
Reuters -
February 26, 2025
“If you look around, there’s so much diversity in life, and that all these things come from a common ancestor seems really surprising to me. Why is evolution so seemingly creative? It seems like maybe that ability is something that evolved itself,” said Luis Zaman, assistant professor of complex systems and of ecology and evolutionary biology, whose research suggests that evolution itself evolves.
Live Science -
February 25, 2025
“Some consequences of the fear of deportation and anti-immigrant hostility are easy to see, like when children miss school. Others — delaying doctor’s appointments, going hungry instead of going to the food bank, tolerating abuse instead of seeking help — are harder to observe, and their negative effects may not be evident for years,” said Kristina Fullerton Rico, postdoctoral fellow at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy’s Center for Racial Justice.
The Conversation -
February 25, 2025
“That’s the most important thing about VR and AR simulations — it makes the impossible possible. … Having a simulation like this allows them unlimited deliberate practice, which is very important when you’re trying to improve technical skills in dentistry,” said Hera Kim-Berman, clinical professor of dentistry, about the virtual reality modules used by U-M dental students to practice giving injections.
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