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April 12, 2024
“A consistent influx of new nurses is undoubtedly needed to grow the nursing workforce, yet without correcting the issues nurses face at the bedside and improving retention, it may not provide a long-term solution,” co-wrote Olga Yakusheva, professor of nursing and public health.
MedPage Today -
April 12, 2024
“Prosecutors all over the country will see this as a new and viable form of liability. I think we should not underestimate the precedential power of this case, even as we recognize that the facts were quite extraordinary,” said Ekow Yankah, professor of law, after the parents of the Oxford school shooter were sentenced to 10-15 years for involuntary manslaughter.
The New York Times -
April 11, 2024
“Enrollment in medical cannabis programs generally decreases after the passage of adult use cannabis laws. This … may be due to several factors, including licensing fees for medical use, inconvenience of appointments and the ability to use nonmedical cannabis medically,” said Kevin Boehnke, assistant professor of anesthesiology.
Newsweek -
April 11, 2024
“This country … is just beginning to catch up with understanding that we cannot use the past of storm events to adequately plan for the future. We have to take into account new situations, more extreme storms — hundred-year storms coming at least annually,” said Joan Iverson Nassauer, professor of landscape architecture.
Hour Detroit -
April 11, 2024
“The existence of Israel is a condition of possibility for the existence of Germany. Because if there is no Israel, then Germany’s guilt is all-consuming again. And you can’t countenance that possibility,” said Johannes von Moltke, professor of German and of film, television and media, explaining Staatsräson, a cornerstone of German foreign policy that sees Israel’s security as intrinsically linked to Germany’s national interest.
The New York Times -
April 10, 2024
“Confronting climate change is central to our human health. Disease vectors are spreading. Smog is becoming worse. And so, if you ask people what they care about, health is always first,” said Rosina Bierbaum, professor of sustainability and environment. “And that, I say, is a task for all of us to convey how inextricably linked our human health is to the health and integrity of our environment.”
WEMU -
April 10, 2024
“On any particular topic, people who are not experts lack the very expertise they need in order to know just how much expertise they lack. The Dunning-Kruger effect visits all of us sooner or later in our pockets of incompetence. They’re invisible to us because to know that you don’t know something, you need to know something,” said David Dunning, professor of psychology.
Scientific American -
April 10, 2024
Because of China’s dominance in green-energy technology, particularly electric vehicles, the U.S. now has higher priorities than upholding traditional free trade principles, says Mary Gallagher, professor of political science: “With the whole system moving to electrification, dependency on a country like China for those products is dangerous. If the United States is not producing itself, it will lose out.”
The New York Times -
April 9, 2024
“This is very healthy fuel, according to the reports. Fuel systems on ships are robust and they’re made to handle fuel that comes in with all kinds of gunk in it,” said Timothy McCoy, professor of practice of naval architecture and marine engineering, after tests on fuel delivered to the ship that crashed into the Baltimore bridge showed it was safe and did not cause a systems failure.
NBC News -
April 9, 2024
“It’s purposefully, in my opinion, obfuscated from taxpayers,” said Judith Grant Long, professor of sports management and urban planning, on the lack of transparency by billionaire sports team owners who often understate costs and overstate job creation and sales tax revenue associated with the construction of new stadiums and arenas.
The Washington Post
