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March 31, 2020
“The hope is that we will get through this unusual circumstance and move forward. Employers don’t want to have to start from scratch in terms of building relationships with students,” said Kerin Borland, director of the University Career Center, who noted that recruiters have continued to interview students over video chat and that an in-person job fair at U-M was turned into a digital format.
The New York Times -
March 31, 2020
“There’s a lot of surveillance that goes on for influenza every year, and so if we were seeing a lot of coronavirus activity at that time — even if you couldn’t test for it — you would see signals in that influenza surveillance,” said Josh Petrie, assistant research professor of epidemiology, on the claims by some Americans that they may have had coronavirus last November and December.
USA Today -
March 31, 2020
Research from Ben Safdi, assistant professor of physics, and colleagues appears to rule out dark matter as producing an unidentified astronomical X-ray emission line. “If this 3.5 keV line was coming from dark matter, since there is dark matter in our own galaxy, we should have seen it.”
Gizmodo -
March 30, 2020
“These kinds of disasters exacerbate existing inequities. In other words, the people who were already worse off are likely to get even worse off,” said Susan Dorr Goold, a professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, in a story about the impact of the coronavirus on residents in rural northern Michigan, many of whom are elderly and have low incomes and poor health.
Bridge Magazine -
March 30, 2020
“What we’re seeing is some systematic increases in temperature over the long run, putting you closer to freeze-thaw cycle of water. And you’re seeing winters getting warmer, shorter — so you just don’t have the amount of time you used to for thermodynamics to do their thing,” said Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, commenting on this winter’s relative lack of ice coverage on the Great Lakes.
National Geographic -
March 30, 2020
“There will be plenty of food for everyone who needs it. There really is. There’s no need to panic or hoard,” said Shelie Miller, associate professor of environment and sustainability, and civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Program in Environment. She said, however, “Some of the increased volume is due to people actually needing more food at home to accommodate for changes in lifestyle.”
The Detroit News -
March 27, 2020
“For science labs, [the coronavirus] can be disastrous to research, because you’re essentially being shut down. And people that do fieldwork or people in the humanities and social sciences who require travel to archives, internationally or even across state boundaries, are all going to have limitations on their work,” said Chris Poulsen, LSA associate dean for natural sciences and professor of earth and environmental sciences, and climate and space sciences and engineering.
Inside Higher Education -
March 27, 2020
“This is not going to be like the Great Depression. The loss of income then was probably five to 10 times worse than what we are going to experience. It will not even be as bad as (Michigan’s) lost decade (in the 2000s), when we lost almost a million jobs. But the decline will be much sharper, the job losses will occur in a matter of months,” said Donald Grimes, a regional economic specialist at the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics.
Bridge Magazine -
March 27, 2020
“The United States is nearly unique among rich democracies in lacking a national policy for paid sick leave. Without it, sick people continue to go to work, making it easier for illnesses to spread — whether that’s the common cold, a norovirus or covid-19,” co-wrote Scott Greer, professor of health management and policy, and global public health.
The Washington Post -
March 26, 2020
“It is promising in some ways. But we know very little. … I can’t stress enough, we don’t even know that these agents work yet at this point in time. We’re doing the best that we can with the information that we have,” said Jason Pogue, clinical professor of pharmacy, on anecdotal reports from China and France indicating chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine might be effective against coronavirus.
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