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August 7, 2024
Twenty years after Brown v. Board of Education, another Supreme Court decision kept school segregation alive, wrote Michelle Adams, professor of law: “(Milliken v. Bradley) effectively put an end to integration in northern schools by ‘containing’ the problem of segregation within city limits. And that, in effect, spelled the end for Brown itself, as the court’s ruling applied nationwide.”
The Washington Post -
July 31, 2024
Research by Sean Esteban McCabe, professor of nursing, and Philip Veliz, research associate professor of nursing, found that misuse of illicit prescription drugs among U.S. high school students fell to 2% in 2022 from 11% in 2009. “Prescribing practices have changed dramatically because we had an opioid epidemic, which turned into a heroin epidemic, and we’re still reeling from that, especially with fentanyl. A lot of this also has to do with parents having better knowledge and oversight of these medications,” Veliz said.
U.S. News & World Report -
July 31, 2024
“Our affordability problems aren’t as bad as, say, L.A.’s but people are increasingly in danger of getting priced out. What we’re doing is using student work to illustrate what could be and what could happen if we don’t look for solutions in housing,” said Sharon Haar, professor of architecture. Antje Steinmuller, chair and professor of architecture, said family constellations are so different, “yet our housing policies don’t acknowledge this. There should be a larger effort to expand family definitions through planning, and architects and planners have to help make those larger adjustments.”
Dwell -
July 31, 2024
The most recent recession in early 2020 “cost millions of jobs, but real income went up. That has never happened in other recessions,” said economist Don Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “(Now) a lot of people are being forced to economize for the first time … (confusing) a little bit of spending austerity with a recession.”
Detroit Free Press -
July 31, 2024
“Trump‘s apparent limitless resources demonstrate the financial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law. “A well-funded defendant has the luxury of pursuing every defense possible … whereas a defendant represented by a public defender or a low-cost lawyer lacks that opportunity because the lawyers are overworked and underpaid.”
USA Today -
July 31, 2024
“We’re all in. We’re spending the time to think strategically about how we can leverage our combined assets as three research universities for the benefit of the state,” President Santa J. Ono said about U-M’s collaboration with Michigan State and Wayne State universities through the University Research Corridor to help drive more economic impact in Detroit and the state as a whole.
Crain's Detroit Business -
July 24, 2024
“(It can be used) to better modulate immune responses. And in our food allergy models, inulin gel has shown great efficacy,” said James Moon, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, whose team has been working on a new approach to treating allergies — using a plant-derived dietary fiber called inulin to interact with bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
WXYZ/Detroit -
July 24, 2024
Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management and director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport, says a new generation of athletes is pushing back against hair discrimination: “For a while, Black women have had to make themselves presentable in a way that wasn’t perceived to be unkept or unprofessional. Black women were judged by their hair, called not professional or not qualified. We’re at a point now where Black women are reclaiming their crown.”
NBC News -
July 24, 2024
“I wanted a platform that’s readily available to most babies, and that could be used in existing neonatal intensive-care units,” said George Mychaliska, professor of pediatric surgery, whose team is developing an artificial placenta that focuses “on gas exchange and maintaining blood pressure, heart rate and fetal circulation while the premature organs are protected and continue developing.”
BBC -
July 24, 2024
“(The Brazil nut plant) is one of the 20 most-species rich families of trees in the Amazon forest, and third in terms of biomass providing important ecological services such as carbon sequestration and food resources for pollinators and seed dispersers,” said Diana Medellin-Zabala, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology, whose research is expanding the knowledge about neotropical biodiversity and its dynamics across time and space.
Forbes
