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October 12, 2021
“Can we possibly justify teaching students to go out and profit their investors by depleting society and the rest of the planet?’ It’s just not a viable ethical position,” said Tom Lyon, faculty director at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, who believes businesses should play an active role in tackling social and environmental challenges.
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October 11, 2021
“Unless you get it through, the whole $3.5 trillion infrastructure package collapses, and that is the main agenda of the administration. I think the administration would not object to compromising on tax things,” said Reuven Avi-Yonah, professor of law, discussing potential issues in the latest international tax proposals spearheaded by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and their impact on President Biden’s budget plan.
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October 11, 2021
Riana Elyse Anderson, assistant professor of health behavior and health education, says a change in our optimal functioning is a red flag we need help: “If it typically is a breeze for you to get up in the mornings or complete your to-dos throughout the day, but now it feels like a ton of bricks are lying on you when getting out of bed, or you’re agitated at everybody while you’re completing your errands, it means you’re functioning differently than your baseline.”
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October 11, 2021
“We’re at about 7.5 billion people right now, and at 2050 we could be at 10 billion. Can everyone have a hamburger? No they simply can’t. And if companies (like McDonald’s) keep pushing the idea that we can, then frankly we’re doomed,” said Andrew Hoffman, professor of sustainable enterprise, noting the climate impact of cattle in the U.S. alone is equivalent to the greenhouse gases released by about 22 million cars.
VICE -
October 8, 2021
“We are at a moment, not just after the murder of George Floyd but also the pandemic, where we have seen structural racism in action in all sorts of places. We keep talking about a racial reckoning, and that racial reckoning is happening in science and medicine, as well,” said Shobita Parthasarathy, professor of public policy, on a lawsuit against a biotech company accused of selling cells taken from a Black woman in 1951 without her consent.
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October 8, 2021
“Our big finding … was there was not as much medical follow-up as one would anticipate following an infection with COVID-19,” said Sheria Robinson-Lane, assistant professor of nursing, whose research also shows that Black people are more likely to be readmitted into the hospital less than 60 days after being discharged.
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October 8, 2021
Research by Lillian Min, associate professor of geriatric and palliative medicine, suggests two medications may be better than one for many older adults with high blood pressure, although doctors typically prescribe one medicine at a low dose and increase its strength as needed: “So now the question becomes: If we’re going to go up on the medicine, should we exhaust one before starting another or should we now implement that new advice?”
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October 7, 2021
Research led by Shawn Xu, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and research professor at the Life Sciences Institute, revealed that C. elegans, a tiny worm ubiquitous in biology research, doesn’t have a specialized hearing organ. Instead, its skin doubles as a sound-sensing membrane, effectively making the worm’s entire body an eardrum. “It was really exciting to find out that when you play sounds at the worms, they do move,” said Elizabeth Ronan, a graduate student in Xu’s lab.
National Geographic -
October 7, 2021
“The very definition of what development means in China is changing. In the past decades, the model was straightforward: It was one that prioritized the speed of growth over all other matters,” said Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of political science. “It is clear by now that (Chinese President Xi Jinping) wants to end the Gilded Age and move toward a Chinese version of the Progressive Era, with growth that is more equitable and less corrupt.”
The New York Times -
October 7, 2021
“The records are poor, and many of them have just been handwritten over decades,” said Eric Schwartz, associate professor of marketing, who along with other U-M researchers developed a machine-learning tool that can help cities predict where lead pipes are most likely to be, rather than spending thousands of dollars on costly digs to figure out whether a pipe buried underground is lead or copper.
Fast Company
