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November 14, 2019
David Michener, curator of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, and Roland Kersten, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry, were interviewed about the medicinal garden at Matthaei-Nichols. Michener says the garden is arranged by human health issue rather than by horticultural needs of the plants, and Kersten plans to conduct research on plants there as a source of new chemicals to treat diseases. “I think there is a lot of potential to find new drugs from plants, Kersten said.
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November 14, 2019
Rick Neitzel, associate professor of environmental health sciences, says there’s evidence that 90 percent of people who live in urban environments are exposed to sound levels higher than an average of 70 decibels a day: “That suggests that a lot of people are going to have hearing loss. We often attribute that to age, but I’m going to argue that it’s just from unrecognized noise.”
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November 14, 2019
Research by Douglas Arenberg, professor of internal medicine, and colleagues shows that only about 60 percent of lung cancer patients get recommended treatments like chemotherapy and radiation that are linked to better survival odds, and rates are even lower for black and elderly patients: “While these findings are very concerning … there may be good reasons why less intensive treatment is in fact medically appropriate.”
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November 13, 2019
“The collapse of the Berlin Wall meant enormous new opportunities to build broader markets and new democracies — but it also allowed for the establishment of illiberal regimes and Russia’s resurgent influence. As we are learning across the world, democracy is not an irrevocable achievement,” co-wrote Pauline Jones, professor of political science and director of the International Institute.
The Washington Post -
November 13, 2019
“The stars have to align — both the medical condition and the sentence the person is facing — for a person to even make this argument,” said Eve Brensike Primus, professor of law, commenting on a recent court case in Iowa in which a prisoner who briefly died before being revived argued that he had served his life sentence and should be freed.
The New York Times -
November 13, 2019
In research designed to give automakers and technology companies insight into how humans can better adapt to self-driving cars, Lionel Robert, associate professor of information, and colleagues found that there are three human personality traits that we want to see in our driverless cars: agreeableness, consciousness and emotional stability.
CNET -
November 12, 2019
James Hilton, vice provost for academic innovation, says universities looking to innovate should not just put existing degree programs online, but think deeper about how they could change instruction to serve different groups of students: “There’s an opportunity to fundamentally reimagine how we deliver education for this century, for this technology, this economy, this political environment.”
Inside Higher Ed -
November 12, 2019
Comments by Marjorie Treadwell, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Courtney Townsel, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, were featured in an article about the 13-year-high preterm birth rate in Detroit, according to statistics from the state of Michigan. “I think the entire medical community continues to be frustrated with the health disparities that we continue to see. I think it’s highlighted by cities like Detroit, which have high rates of African American patient populations,” Townsel said.
Detroit Free Press -
November 12, 2019
“By any measure, the state’s takeover of Detroit schools was a failure. But it was also a constitutional abdication. Though the Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not require absolute equality in educational outcomes, it has also emphasized that a basic education is of fundamental, constitutional importance. … There can be no doubt that the state is responsible for Detroit’s plight,” wrote Eli Savit, lecturer in law.
The New York Times -
November 11, 2019
Daniel Crane, the Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law, was quoted in a story about how the rising movement in the United States to consider charging the country’s biggest tech companies with violating antitrust laws is running headlong into powerful and well-funded conservatives and libertarians committed to pushing back on those efforts.
The New York Times
