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April 8, 2024
The insinuation calls upon a common stereotype “that not having enough food or struggling to buy food is an individual choice. And that’s absolutely not the case,” said Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutritional sciences, on remarks by Kellogg’s CEO Gary Plinick that families struggling to afford groceries should eat cereal for dinner.
WDET Radio -
April 5, 2024
“I think that the rise in threats to the judiciary is a direct consequence of the rhetoric that Donald Trump uses. When he goes after judges, he accuses them of engaging in election interference,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law. “The danger in this rhetoric is that someone out there who is perhaps somewhat unhinged will hear it as a call to action.”
The Washington Post -
April 5, 2024
“Our results show clearly that minimum wages do little harm to independent firms and even benefit some owners, while meaningfully increasing both the earnings and employment of young and low-earning workers. Of course, these gains to workers and owners are financed by consumers,” said Nirupama Rao, assistant professor of business economics and public policy.
Newsweek -
April 5, 2024
“What lies before us now is a grand opportunity. We must use our ability to borrow more cheaply to invest capital throughout the city in innovative ways that uplift the lives of those Detroiters that Moody’s mentions, but disregards,” wrote Chase Cantrell, lecturer in urban planning, after Detroit’s recent credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service improved to a level the city hasn’t seen in more than a decade.
Detroit Free Press -
April 4, 2024
“It’s very hard to economically convert propane into propylene. You need to heat that reaction to drive it, and standard methods require very high temperatures to produce enough propylene,” said Suljo Linic, professor of chemical engineering, whose team designed a chemical reactor that creates propylene, an important ingredient for plastics, adhesives, carpet fibers, household cleaners and more from natural gas.
DBusiness -
April 4, 2024
“We are like goldfish trying to understand the fishbowl from the inside,” said Sarah Spitzer, research fellow in climate and space sciences and engineering, whose team discovered an exit route through our heliosphere. “A future interstellar probe mission will be our first opportunity to really see our heliosphere, our home, from the outside, and to better understand its place in the local interstellar medium.”
Interesting Engineering -
April 4, 2024
Unpaid “earthwork,” which typically falls to Indigenous peoples, who steward the land and share traditional ecological knowledge, should be compensated, says David Temin, assistant professor of political science: “If we’re going to think about a just transition to a world without fossil fuels, we need to put a lot of this invisible labor at the center. … Everyone is implicitly benefiting from this.”
Grist -
April 3, 2024
The U-M Center for Innovation, slated to open in 2027, will help catalyze economic development in the city of Detroit, said Provost Laurie McCauley: “It will house a robust portfolio of academic programs, including new interdisciplinary graduate degrees and certificate programs aligned to the skills of the future needed to attract startups as well as major employers to the region.”
The Detroit News -
April 3, 2024
“We know the big rulers were intermarrying, but what about the political substrata — to what degree were lower elites allowed to intermarry? I think that’s where genetics could really start to tell an interesting story,” said archaeologist Bryan Miller, assistant professor of history of art, on the use of ancient DNA to glean information about a Chinese emperor’s appearance, health and ancestry.
CNN -
April 3, 2024
Spouses who have similar drinking habits tend to live longer, according to research by Kira Birditt, research professor at the Institute for Social Research: “We don’t know why both partners drinking is associated with better survival. There is little information about the daily interpersonal processes that account for these links.”
Newsweek
