In the News
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March 5, 2024
If you’ve started your workout and aren’t motivated to continue, try a different activity or call it a day, said Michelle Segar, associate research scientist at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender: “Pushing through it is a recipe to develop a greater disdain for exercise. Give yourself grace and really honor and be aware of the fact that you’re making a conscious choice because of what you’re feeling.”
Everyday Health -
March 5, 2024
“I found myself, during the pandemic, prescribing antidepressants at rates that I never had before. I can’t tell you how many pediatricians have told me that they feel like they’re just mental health clinicians at this point,” said Kao-Ping Chua, assistant professor of pediatrics and public health, who found that the dispensing rate for youth has risen nearly 64% faster than normal since March 2020.
CNN -
March 4, 2024
“The simplest way to put it is, eventually, we would have winter in July. Basically, after 700 years, if we didn’t have Leap Day, it would be adrift so that the summer and winter would be opposite, and twice that, it would come back again,” said Steven Cundiff, professor of physics, and of electrical engineering and computer science.
WWJ Radio -
March 4, 2024
“Pricing algorithms allow companies to change prices throughout the day or perhaps even throughout an hour. During the busy times, they can obviously increase profits,” said Zach Brown, assistant professor of economics, on Wendy’s announcement that it will launch new menu prices that will fluctuate depending on the time of day.
Good Morning America -
March 4, 2024
“If there is an animal that can be eaten, it’s likely that some snake, somewhere, has evolved the ability to eat it,” said Daniel Rabosky, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and curator at the Museum of Zoology. “Snakes evolved faster and — dare we say it — better than some other groups. They are versatile and flexible and able to specialize on prey that other groups cannot use.”
Cosmos Magazine -
February 23, 2024
“There is clearly a greater need to improve sedation for Hispanic patients because of what we know about disparities in their outcomes,” said Thomas Valley, associate professor of pulmonary medicine, whose research found that Hispanic patients in respiratory failure receive heavy sedation at a rate that is five times that of white patients.
U.S. News & World Report -
February 23, 2024
“We know when people feel empathy, when they want to help. But we’re not seeing it in these times of crisis, globally, locally, in our own partisan politics in America,” said Stephanie Preston, professor of psychology. “What a utopian vision would be for me is where people are able finally to see the fellow humanity in people from all different cultures and races and situations.”
Quanta Magazine -
February 23, 2024
“Washington is going to be looking for endeavors and ambitions in Asia … and as long as it looks at Asian countries as terrain for competition with China, it will give Prabowo some latitude to make initial goodwill,” said Dan Slater, professor of political science, about Indonesia’s next president, Prabowo Subianto, an ex-army general once banned from the U.S. over alleged human rights violations.
CNN -
February 22, 2024
Arab Americans who have worked for years to establish ties to the Democratic Party power structure are now questioning their commitment because of the gravity of the war in Gaza, says Hani Bawardi, associate professor of history at UM-Dearborn: “That will override any other concern at the moment, and Biden seems to know that.”
USA Today -
February 22, 2024
“Trump has been very effective previously at using wedge issues. Whenever he comes to the state, this comes up. And this is not abstract in Michigan, it’s a real question. ‘What plant am I going to be working in?’” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and environment, on Donald Trump’s focus on the anxiety over electric vehicles that pervades Michigan autoworkers.
The New York Times
