In the News
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May 1, 2019
Comments by Stuart Batterman, professor of environmental health sciences, and civil and environmental engineering, were featured in a story about indoor air quality and ways to remove irritants from inside the home.
The Washington Post -
April 30, 2019
“From today’s perspective, it’s interesting to think of how the contribution of Japan’s past reigning empresses to history has become so diminished. By totally ignoring these women or interpreting their roles as mere ‘fillers’ between (Imperial) men, Japanese society offers no historical imagination for what women can be and do,” said Hitomi Tonomura, professor of history and women’s studies.
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April 30, 2019
Joseph Ryan, professor of social work and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research, said most states aim to keep families together despite a parent’s history of drug use: “To some extent, that makes sense. It’s not like we have a great alternative in foster care. The general idea is to see if you can work with a family in the home and reduce the risk of harm to the child.”
Chicago Tribune -
April 30, 2019
“The Fourth Amendment is all about common sense and reasonable expectations of privacy and social norms. It’s just common sense that the police will now need to ask passengers: ‘Mind if I search that bag?’” said David Moran, clinical professor of law, on a recent Michigan Supreme Court decision overturning a 2007 decision that stopped passengers from challenging a search of a car in which they were traveling.
The Detroit News -
April 29, 2019
A ruling by a panel of federal judges that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are extreme partisan gerrymanders and unconstitutional relied, in part, on research by Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science, who produced 1,000 simulated political maps drawn randomly according to the state’s standards — none of which gave Republicans as many districts as they currently control.
The New York Times -
April 29, 2019
“Dancers have fewer resources. The economics have limited us. And there’s this 19th-century notion of artistic genius, where the choreographer is supposed to be the person from which everything springs. Essentially the choreographer is the playwright and director,” said Clare Croft, associate professor of dance, in a story about how some choreographers are now collaborating with dance dramaturges.
The Washington Post -
April 29, 2019
Jeremy Kress, professor of business law, said a potential merger of two large U.S. retail banks “would result in greater or more concentrated risks to U.S. financial stability. There is strong empirical evidence that the collapse of a combined BB&T-SunTrust would be worse for the economy than if both banks failed separately.”
Politico -
April 28, 2019
Cynthia Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and electrical engineering and computer science, commented on research that demonstrates electrical activity in the brain can be decoded and used to synthesize speech: “Speech decoding is an exciting new frontier for brain-machine interfaces. And there is a subset of the population that has a really big use for this.”
National Geographic -
April 28, 2019
Eric Schwartz, assistant professor of marketing, and colleagues are working on a plan to make publicly available all of the data and records of work that’s been done since Flint’s water crisis began: “Knowing that kind of information really should empower residents to really see what information is out there and what they ought to be doing about that if they still have lead lines right now.”
Michigan Radio -
April 28, 2019
“The stakes are very high because in a very, very large number of states around the country there is no law that explicitly protects people against discrimination on a basis of their sexual orientation or identity. Michigan is one of those states,” said Sam Bagenstos, professor of law, on a U.S. Supreme Court case that originated in Michigan and will decide whether federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination against transgender people.
The Detroit News
