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March 5, 2021
COVID-19 notwithstanding, there are a lot of people interested in going to medical school — especially African American students, says Adrianne Haggins, assistant professor of emergency medicine: “What I hope for them is that … they are provided a program that creates an environment that allows them to have the impact that they want to have, and actually (has) the community benefit that I’m hoping most academic centers would want.”
Michigan Radio -
March 4, 2021
“We understand a little bit about how … solar storms form, but we can’t predict (them) well,” said Aaron Ridley, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, who is part of a U.S. collaboration creating simulations of solar storms to help scientists forecast where the storms will go, how intense they will be and when they might affect important satellites and power grids on Earth.
Science News -
March 4, 2021
Alzheimer’s disease may strike later in women than men, but once it takes hold, women tend to deteriorate far faster than men, according to Deborah Levine, associate professor of neurology and internal medicine: “Women appear to have faster cognitive decline than men. And these sex differences in cognitive decline might be due to differences in sex hormones, structural brain development, genetics, psychosocial factors, lifestyle factors, functional connectivity and brain pathology.”
U.S. News & World Report -
March 4, 2021
“People understand there’s an affordability issue in Ann Arbor. The town is progressive, at least in its language, and it has an outward persona as a place that is welcome and wants decent affordable housing for all people. Where the fights come are on the specific sites,” said Marc Norman, associate professor of practice in urban and regional planning, on the passage last November of a millage increase to fund affordable housing.
The Washington Post -
March 3, 2021
“Humanities scholarship needs a new system for funding its infrastructure, one that recognizes university presses as mission-critical components worthy of intentional, inter-institutional commitments — rather than as auxiliary units of a few individual institutions, funded by sales and assessed only by the bottom line,” co-wrote Charles Watkinson, associate university librarian for publishing and director of the University of Michigan Press.
Inside Higher Ed -
March 3, 2021
Research by Meha Jain, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, and colleagues found that overuse of groundwater could cause winter harvests in some regions of India to fall up to two thirds by 2025. “Indian farmers are in a very challenging situation right now,” she said. “On top of groundwater depletion, there’s also going to be negative impacts of climate change in the coming decades.”
CNN -
March 3, 2021
For many Black people, constantly focusing on changing themselves to make white people feel comfortable can be exhausting and unhealthy, says Myles Durkee, assistant professor of psychology: “Black professionals … who tend to code-switch more frequently also report significantly more workplace fatigue and burnout from their current positions — simply, because they have to be a different person and mask all the cultural assets that they probably value and appreciate internally.”
WDIV/Detroit -
March 2, 2021
Craig Borum, professor of architecture, and Jen Maigret, associate professor of architecture, discussed ways to reinvent staid typologies in architecture. “We’re trying to work outside of commissions to think about ways of generating new knowledge or new approaches to materials, organization, the way we work, and then letting the practice inform some of those questions, but then also letting the research feed back into the way we think about projects,” Borum said.
The Architect's Newspaper -
March 2, 2021
Neurons activated during prior learning keep humming and building memories into the brain during sleep, say Sara Aton, associate professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, and doctoral student Brittany Clawson. “We would really like to know what’s facilitating that process of making a new association, like a particular set of neurons, or a particular stage of sleep. But for the longest time, there was really no way to test this experimentally,” Alton said.
Indo-Asian News Service -
March 2, 2021
“For decades, states have equalized the numbers of people their districts contain. But the GOP is now pushing to equalize districts’ citizen voting-age populations instead,” co-wrote Jowei Chen, associate professor of political science. “Minority representation would drop sharply if states equalized adult citizens rather than people. But the partisan balance of power would be largely unaffected.”
The Washington Post
