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September 14, 2022
Detroit is mulling spending $8 million in federal pandemic relief funds on technology that identifies the sound of gunshots through live microphones in public places. “There are things they could be doing with that funding that will reduce crime that are evidence based. … It is not about policing,” said Molly Kleinman, managing director of the Ford School’s Science, Technology and Public Policy program.
Axios Detroit -
September 14, 2022
“Having those constant visual or oral reminders of stereotypes, such as park names, negatively affects the group being stereotyped. … But they also reinforce that stereotyping behavior in the general population,” said Cherry Meyer, assistant professor of American culture and of linguistics, on a government initiative to eliminate derogatory terms, such as “squaw,” from federal use.
The Detroit News -
September 13, 2022
A Texas judge’s ruling that businesses shouldn’t be forced to provide insurance that includes HIV-prevention care coverage could endanger free routine screenings for a variety of other health problems, said Mark Fendrick, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance: “I’m particularly worried that it’s going to be a huge blow for population health in general and an even bigger blow for the most vulnerable Americans who work so hard to get access to these services.”
Bridge Michigan -
September 13, 2022
“Telling the colonized how they should feel about their colonizer’s health and wellness is like telling my people that we ought to worship the Confederacy,” said Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, associate professor of education, speaking out against the backlash toward those who have questioned Queen Elizabeth’s II’s legacy as a figurehead for the brutality against people who suffered under British imperialism.
Newsweek -
September 13, 2022
“People in Michigan can be pretty nervous about the transition to electric vehicles because they actually require by some estimation a lot less labor to assemble because there are fewer parts,” said Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Economic Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “There are questions about what does that mean for these jobs.”
The New York Times -
September 12, 2022
Nearly half of local officials in Michigan say they have personally experienced online or in-person harassment. “Unfortunately, these findings are indicators of the problems facing our democracy today. Local leaders generally want their residents engaged in their government’s work, but not like this,” said Tom Ivacko, executive director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy.
Detroit Free Press -
September 12, 2022
“Part of the reason to try to get this out as quickly as possible is because we’ve got the fall season coming. We really want to bring down the rates of infection in people, and putting out a vaccine that generates immunity specifically to the circulating variants will help to do that,” said Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology, on the new COVID-19 booster that targets current Omicron variants.
WIRED -
September 12, 2022
New research shows that forehead thermometers may be less accurate than oral thermometers in detecting fevers in Black patients. “As someone who has … found something similar in a different diagnostic tool — pulse oximetry — unfortunately, I’m not surprised,” said Tom Valley, assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine.
CNN -
September 9, 2022
Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering, and Neil Dasgupta, associate professor of mechanical engineering, will lead a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded research center that will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors in solid-state batteries, a powerful material that could revolutionize the automotive industry. “If you think of ceramics, like pottery or plates, they don’t catch fire very easily,” Dasgupta said. “By replacing this kind of flammable component, we could potentially reduce the risk of fires, which is a really critical safety challenge.”
The Detroit News -
September 9, 2022
“We really don’t know what the properties of a new variant will be. There’s a lot of wiggle room in what could happen,” said Marisa Eisenberg, associate professor of epidemiology, mathematics and complex systems. “It’s still better to go ahead and get the booster because you’re building your immunity to a wider range of COVID variants than what you had before … and that will build the rest of your immunity.”
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