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October 9, 2019
“Even a good move like this, important as it is symbolically, isn’t going to make a meaningful dent in the horror show that is literally millions of refugees waiting for decades with no solution in sight,” said James Hathaway, professor of law, on New Zealand’s recent elimination of a policy restricting refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries.
The New York Times -
October 8, 2019
“It looks like a search-and-destroy, and it sends a chilling message to other states,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy, environment and political science, on the Trump administration’s fight over California’s fuel-economy standards intended to weaken the environmental statutes of the country’s most populous state.
The New York Times -
October 8, 2019
Sarah Miller, assistant professor of business economics and public policy, discussed her research that suggests the Affordable Care Act, designed to improve people’s physical health, also has improved their financial well-being.
Michigan Radio -
October 8, 2019
“Einstein has been right for 100 years — so to claim that his theory needs a correction is extraordinary. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary new findings,” said Dragan Huterer, professor of physics, referring to scientists who doubt the existence of dark energy and contend that the movements of galaxies can be explained by a tweaked version of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
NBC News -
October 7, 2019
“In animals, it has been found to have the potential to cause cancer. NDMA is found in some foods and even in water at times, but it is certainly unfortunate that it has been in a variety of drug products since July 2018,” said James Brian Byrd, assistant professor of internal medicine, regarding the FDA’s recent announcement that Zantac and its generic form, ranitidine, may contain low levels of a probable human carcinogen.
HuffPost -
October 7, 2019
Jane Dutton, professor emerita of business administration and psychology, says that both well-being and performance thrive in workplaces that care for the whole employee: “These environments allow employees to adapt to their circumstances — whether around mental health or any other challenges happening in their lives.”
Forbes -
October 7, 2019
“Many organizations throw billions into building magnificent buildings, but they don’t hear this very simple idea: If you don’t understand how your social and spatial environments are interacting, more likely than not all that investment is for naught,” said Felix Kabo, assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research.
Detroit Free Press -
October 4, 2019
Comments by Helen Burgess, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory, and Mark Moyad, senior research associate in urology and director of preventive and alternative medicine, were featured in a story about the safety of taking melatonin — the country’s most-used sleep-aid — every night. “Some of the emerging science is showing that in people with higher levels of inflammation — which could be because they’re obese, or because they’re in the (intensive care unit) for a transplant — melatonin in the range of 6 mg to 10 mg may decrease markers of inflammation,” Burgess said.
TIME -
October 4, 2019
Research led by Julia Lee, assistant professor of management and organizations, found that the more a person lies, the worse they are at reading other people’s emotions — suggesting that in order to protect ourselves from feeling bad about our dishonesty, we mentally distance ourselves from other people, making it harder to understand and empathize with others.
Inc. -
October 4, 2019
“People aren’t constitutional scholars. They trust their elected officials from their party to know the rules of politics. And when members of their own party say that someone has broken the rules, that’s when public opinion will really begin to change,” said Nicholas Valentino, professor of political science, who doesn’t expect to see much more fluctuation in the number of people who support or oppose impeachment of Donald Trump unless Republican leaders begin to break ranks and support it.
USA Today
