In the News
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January 18, 2024
Last year, the high school smoking rate was less than 2% — far lower than the 35% rate 25 years ago. “That’s a great public health triumph,” said Ken Warner, professor and dean emeritus of the School of Public Health. “If it weren’t for e-cigarettes, I think we would be hearing the public health community shouting at the top of their lungs about the success of getting kids not to smoke.”
The Washington Post -
January 17, 2024
“Business schools have lost their way,” said Andy Hoffman, professor of sustainable enterprise. “We find ourselves talking to smaller and narrower academic audiences, using a language that even well-educated readers do not understand, publishing in journals they don’t read, and asking questions for which they have little concern.”
Financial Times -
January 17, 2024
“There is plenty of evidence … that consumers do recognize the areas of strength in our economy. However, what they don’t feel good about … is that inflation, high prices specifically, continue to weigh down on their economic experiences,” said Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers. “Consumers are still really struggling to accept that we’re not going back to 2019.”
Barron's -
January 17, 2024
“The promulgation of federal development policies and financing incentives was not as dramatic as the segregation of southern lunch counters, buses and public restrooms, but those policies perpetuated racial inequities and exacerbated the growing wealth gap between Black and white residents in metropolitan areas like Detroit,” wrote Jamon Jordan, lecturer in the Residential College.
Detroit Free Press -
January 16, 2024
“There has to be a better way,” said Sara Schaefer, house officer in surgery, who worries about the unintended consequences of getting rid of inpatient beds in rural hospitals, which continue to close due to staffing shortages, low reimbursement rates and declining patient numbers.
National Public Radio -
January 16, 2024
“President Biden should publicly announce that if Trump is the Republican nominee for president, he will not debate him in the general election unless he also participates in the upcoming primary debates in Iowa or New Hampshire,” wrote Aaron Kall, director of U-M Debate.
The Hill -
January 16, 2024
“The idea that ‘just doing his job’ as president entails inciting a violent riot at the Capitol, interfering with the certification of the election, and attempting to throw out legitimate votes is and has always been absurd,” said Leah Litman, professor of law. “He wasn’t a candidate anymore, Trump’s new theory goes, so he must have been doing his job as president to ensure elections are fair.”
Politico -
January 15, 2024
Adults with sickle cell disease are half as likely to have received an initial COVID-19 vaccine dose as people without sickle cell disease, according to research by Sarah Reeves, assistant professor of epidemiology and pediatrics, and colleagues. “It is essential to develop targeted interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccination among people with sickle cell disease,” she said.
UPI -
January 15, 2024
Kendrin Sonneville, associate professor of nutritional sciences, worries that dieting may put some people at risk of developing an eating disorder. But even if they don’t, their relationships with food can deteriorate if they start “prioritizing weight and nutrition over joy and culture and connection,” she said.
The New York Times -
January 15, 2024
Subjecting every person to the degree of fact-checking that ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay received is “just not humanly possible,” says Earl Lewis, professor of history, Afroamerican and African studies, and public policy. “God knows, I think if we submitted every scholar in the United States to that kind of scrutiny, what would happen?”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
