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February 10, 2019
Comments by Greg Tarle, professor of physics, were featured in a story about possible signs of dark matter identified by a costly and controversial space-based cosmic ray detector.
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February 7, 2019
Christina Weiland, assistant professor of education, was quoted in a story about the improvements made nationwide by Head Start, the country’s biggest preschool program serving nearly 900,000 low-income students.
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February 7, 2019
“If you think it’s a war on plutocracy — you think that rich people have too much political power — then if these wealth taxes reduce the wealth of the very wealthy and reduce their political power, you’re satisfied, goal achieved. But if you’re thinking about this as a war on inequality (where) lower-income, lower-wealth people are not doing well, then you care about how much revenue you raise,” said Joel Slemrod, professor of economics and director of the Office of Tax Policy Research.
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February 7, 2019
Comments by Nicole Ellison, professor of information, were featured in an article about how Facebook has changed social life by keeping weak connections on life support forever — friendships you’ve evolved out of or would normally have faded out of your life, but which, thanks to Facebook, are instead still hanging around.
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February 6, 2019
Research by Natasha Pilkauskas, assistant professor of public policy, shows that nuclear families — father, mother and dependent children — now make up less than 20 percent of American households due to a decline in marriage, an increase in single parenthood and a growing population of nonwhite Americans.
Hour Detroit -
February 6, 2019
“To say it was not about race is to say history doesn’t matter and there was this magic historical moment where all vestiges of a racialized housing market went away and everything started anew like the Book of Genesis,” said Matthew Lassiter, professor of history and urban and regional planning, about a 1950 provision in California’s Constitution that still requires voter approval before public housing is built in a community.
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February 6, 2019
Srijan Sen, associate professor of psychiatry, was interviewed for a story about what it’s like to live with high-functioning depression. Some people may not even know how to identify depression in themselves, which is particularly concerning because depression doesn’t discriminate, Sen said.
Vice -
February 5, 2019
Johanna Mathieu, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, discussed lessons learned about the state’s energy infrastructure during last week’s polar vortex and fire at a Consumers Energy natural gas plant, and what Michigan could do to avert a similar situation in the future.
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February 5, 2019
Nina Mendelson, professor of law, said the strategy that Department of Interior officials and others have taken of delegating many responsibilities to unconfirmed officials was “legally problematic” because it conflicts with the intent and language in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act: “Congress specifically sought to limit this sort of strategy.”
The Washington Post -
February 5, 2019
“The polarization that exists on climate policy in the U.S. has prevented a lot of conservative politicians from doing something. And the decisions that are being made now, or the lack of decisions being made now, are going to condemn the Colorado (River) to additional flow reductions. If we don’t deal with climate change, the Southwest will become a place of exodus,” said Jonathan Overpeck, professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability.
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