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May 17, 2021
DTE Energy’s coal-fired power plants are disproportionately located in communities of color, according to research by Amy Jo Schulz, professor of health education and health behavior, and Tony Reames, assistant professor of environment and sustainability. “There are substantial health impacts of current energy production,” Schulz said. “And we have opportunities … to examine those and to modify decisions in ways that reduce harm, that also allows us to look at equity.”
Energy News Network -
May 17, 2021
“I don’t think China will dump electric vehicles as a national state-sponsored strategy … because they don’t need to do so in order to reach scale economies — their own market is already the biggest and growing faster than elsewhere,” said Linda Lim, professor emerita of corporate strategy and international business. “They don’t need to export to become cheap, and if they do, there are plenty of other big markets in Asia that they can export to.”
The Detroit News -
May 17, 2021
To achieve true racial equity, colleges must talk honestly about their histories and values, says W. Carson Byrd, faculty director of research initiatives at U-M’s National Center for Institutional Diversity: “An integral piece of this conversation is that universities are a part of society, not separate from it. If we are to confront that racism is part of how other organizations operate, then we must better confront how universities are part of that reality as well.”
Inside Higher Ed -
May 14, 2021
“The moonshot happened. We’re on the moon. … If you counted up all the lives that have been saved and all the disease prevented over the last 100 years, you’re talking the top 9 out of 10 greatest hits of medicine,” said Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine, who believes the “moonshot” was developing and manufacturing safe and effective vaccines in record time.
CNN -
May 14, 2021
The warming deep waters of Lake Michigan will profoundly impact the lake’s food web, resulting in a reduced abundance of fish, says Gregory Dick, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, and ecology and evolutionary biology: “Lake Michigan has already faced some big challenges with … invasive species, and this picture that we’re talking about now is another big challenge on top of that.”
WXYZ/Detroit -
May 14, 2021
The federal judge who tossed out the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case warned that any effort to revive it will likely result in the appointment of an outside trustee to take control of the organization and its finances. “They will not be back anytime soon,” said John Pottow, professor of law, adding that the judge’s warning was “not just a shot across the bow” but “a full volley.”
The New York Times -
May 13, 2021
“Our best economic tool right now is public health. Once we get to a point where there’s enough folks vaccinated and some of the fear about being in public abates, I do think that there will be this kind of resurgence in the service economy,” said Patrick Cooney, assistant director of economic mobility at Poverty Solutions.
Detroit Free Press -
May 13, 2021
“We needed people to just really step up and volunteer their time, at a time when they were already tired and burnt out,” said Lindsay Ann Petty, assistant professor of internal medicine and medical director of the monoclonal antibody program. Michigan Medicine was one of the first health systems to develop a monoclonal antibody treatment to help the immune system fight off the coronavirus in the early stages of infection.
Michigan Radio -
May 13, 2021
“We need to reduce the environmental impacts of vehicle production going forward, and one of the ways to do that is to boost the production of lightweight sheet metals from recycled materials,” said Daniel Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who heads up the U-M Clean Sheet Project.
DBusiness Magazine -
May 12, 2021
“It’s a big net to catch everything, not a way of evaluating what problems are actually caused by vaccines. ‘Died after getting a vaccine’ could mean you died in a car accident, you died of another disease you already had or anything else,” said Anna Kirkland, director of the Institute for Women and Gender, on an unverified national health database that naysayers have used to falsely suggest COVID-19 vaccines caused thousands of deaths.
The New York Times
