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October 28, 2019
“If you think the answer is a windmill and an electric car, you’re not thinking big enough. The answer is not more cars, it is rethinking mobility,” said Andrew Hoffman, professor of environment and sustainability, and of management and organizations, who says people must think more creatively about how we address the threats of climate change.
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October 28, 2019
Anne Pitcher, professor of political science and Afroamerican and African studies, asserts that the contested results of Mozambique’s recent general elections, which saw violence, vote rigging and a landslide victory for the ruling party, could jeopardize an August peace deal: “Irregularities affect the magnitude of the results — but not the eventual winner.”
The Washington Post -
October 25, 2019
Nearly half of parents with at least one child aged 4 through 9 said they had turned down a play date because they did not feel comfortable leaving their child in the other parents’ care, according to Sarah Clark, co-director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health: “How much of this is about … anxiety as opposed to the actual situation out there?”
The New York Times -
October 25, 2019
Dealing with passive-aggressive behavior in the workplace is not only frustrating, it can also be bad for engagement and productivity, says Lindred Greer, associate professor for management and organizations: “Similar to any form of aggressive behavior, direct or indirect, it is contagious and can sink performance.”
CNN -
October 25, 2019
Ask President Mark Schlissel what he’s most proud of during his first five-year term in office, and the answer is the Go Blue Guarantee, which offers four years of free undergraduate tuition to qualified, in-state students from Michigan families earning $65,000 annually or less. “Educational opportunity is a mission that the university is responsible for across our state, and I know there are talented kids in all parts of the socioeconomic spectrum.”
The Detroit News -
October 24, 2019
Stephen Berrey, associate professor of American culture, commented on what now are known as Jim Crow laws, the racist system of segregating people, mainly blacks from whites: “One of the challenges why Jim Crow often seems like it’s in the past, people tend to think that, ‘Oh, it was a few laws, and we got rid of segregation laws, and we got the Voting Rights Act, so that must have taken care of it.’ It didn’t.”
HowStuffWorks -
October 24, 2019
Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology, commented on new research that shows major differences in child mortality rates within countries, confirming that children living in rural areas where health services are limited are often at greater risk of dying young. “The interventions you’re going to need to be successful are going to be very different” depending on the most pressing causes of child death in an area and the cultural context of how people want to deal with it, she said.
National Public Radio -
October 24, 2019
David Gier, dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, was interviewed about the university’s new arts initiative, which President Mark Schlissel recently announced: “The initiative is built on an extraordinarily strong base. But I think that the aspirations for this initiative are, in fact, all about not just elevating that base but engaging the arts very broadly across campus and across the region.”
WEMU Radio -
October 23, 2019
“We’re at a fertility rate that is lower than the Great Depression, which is very significant,” said Pamela Smock, professor of sociology and research professor at the Population Studies Center. She and Ren Farley, professor emeritus of sociology, public policy and population studies, were quoted in an article about Michigan’s record-low birth rate. “Population growth stimulates economic growth,” Farley said. “Population decline presents a lot of challenges that people don’t think about,” such as having a sufficient workforce and enough younger people to support senior citizens.
MLive -
October 23, 2019
“What I worry about most with these patients is hospitalization and respiratory failure,” said MeiLan Han, professor of internal medicine, who points out that 92 percent of adults hospitalized for the flu have at least one underlying chronic condition. Some, such as HIV and cancer, she says, make people unable to mount a robust response to the flu virus without a flu shot.
Michigan Radio
