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October 15, 2020
“There is just no getting around social distancing, so it’s hard for me to envision a scenario where we can effectively design a space that could still have the same pre-pandemic capacity. Sure, we can design spaces as Band-Aids in the time of COVID, but if you really want to think about design innovation, it’s better if we design for the longer term,” said Andrew Ibrahim, assistant professor of surgery, and architecture and urban design.
Architectural Digest -
October 15, 2020
“I don’t think we will ever eliminate concussions from any sport. It’s just the nature of the human condition — if you’re going to participate in any physical activity, then you’re going to be at risk. I think there are things that have been done that have improved concussion risk in management for that matter, but I still think there’s a lot of room to go,” said Steven Broglio, professor of kinesiology and director of the Michigan Concussion Center.
MLive -
October 14, 2020
The historic surge in third-party voting in Michigan in 2016 likely had to do with Hillary Clinton’s striking unpopularity. “One of the key factors was white men in Michigan who voted overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton four years ago swung back to Biden in (the 2020 primary),” said Robert Yoon, lecturer in communication and media. Jonathan Hanson, lecturer in public policy, said fewer voters plan to vote for a third-party candidate this year: “People who are against Trump know that voting for a third-party candidate could indirectly help Trump because of how close the election was in 2016.”
MLive -
October 14, 2020
More college-age Americans are choosing not to drink alcohol than they did nearly two decades ago and alcohol abuse has decreased by roughly half among adults 18-22, according to research by Sean Esteban McCabe, professor of nursing and director of the Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health.
CNN -
October 14, 2020
“We see that younger and younger consumers of social media are being targeted for conspiracy theories and extremist groups and things like that,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information, who noted that social media algorithms filter out other viewpoints, leading people into extremes.
WXYZ (Detroit) -
October 13, 2020
Throughout the history of Western painting, imagery of flies can symbolize death, rot, decay, corruption and “painting’s power to deceive the eye,” says Celeste Brusati, professor emerita of the history of art, who was quoted in a story about the much-talked-about fly that landed on the head of Vice President Mike Pence during the vice presidential debate.
The Washington Post -
October 13, 2020
Factors that contribute to high-quality in-person instruction — a course where you get some interaction and attention from an instructor — are necessary for high-quality remote learning, said Kevin Stange, associate professor of public policy: “When you’re enrolling in college, you are buying some of my time. If you put 1,000 people into a classroom and you buy a thousandth of my time, you’re going to get a lot less of that.”
MarketWatch -
October 13, 2020
“The vicious cycle between climate impacts on disease and disease impacts on climate is striking. Our study highlights that scientists need to incorporate both animals and disease into the experiments and models used to predict future carbon emissions,” said Aimée Classen, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the U-M Biological Station.
SciTechDaily -
October 12, 2020
One of the reasons that the 2020 campaign is unique is that President Trump is more reliant on attacks than his challenger, says Stuart Soroka, professor of communication and media, and political science, and research professor at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research: “Normally the incumbent is getting attacked more than they are doing the attacking.”
CBS News -
October 12, 2020
Research by Abram Wagner, research assistant professor of epidemiology, found that Americans who received a flu shot during the last influenza season were 63 percent more likely to be planning to get the COVID-19 vaccine than those who did not: “If you have experience with getting the jab, and you have the shot, it’s no big deal, then I think you will be just more likely to get another shot in the future, even if it’s not the same shot you got in the past.”
TIME
