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October 3, 2018
“When I first began studying the interactions between social movements and corporations 25 years ago, it was rare to see business take a public stand on social issues,” said Jerry Davis, professor of management and organizations, and sociology, who noted they may have publicly voiced their opinions on topics like taxes and regulations, but remained “scrupulously neutral” otherwise.
Quartz -
October 3, 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang, associate professor of political science, says that the Belt and Road Initiative — China’s ambitious transcontinental effort to link the economies of some 80 countries through improved trade and transportation links — is a vision, not a plan: “The Belt and Road has become a global investment campaign on steroids, where too many people are too eager to spend and build without sufficient care.”
Bloomberg News -
October 3, 2018
“I think this experience has shown him that however smart he is, or however powerful he thinks he is, the government is also powerful, too,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business, regarding Elon Musk, who must pay a $20 million fine and step down as Tesla’s board chairman after being accused of misleading investors.
CBS News -
October 2, 2018
“Current policies advancing bioenergy contribute to the pressure to convert natural land into harvested forest or cropland. But high-quality land is a limited resource. For reducing atmospheric CO2, the most efficient use of ecologically productive land is to leave it alone, or reforest it. Let it act as a natural, long-term carbon sink,” said John DeCicco, research professor at the U-M Energy Institute.
UPI -
October 2, 2018
Marcia Valenstein, professor emerita of psychiatry, commented on research that shows that adults who have been hospitalized for psychiatric problems may be less likely to be readmitted when they get support from other patients who went through similar experiences.
Reuters -
October 2, 2018
“Adolescent cannabis use has been pretty steady the past couple of years, so it doesn’t appear that (vaping and edibles) are drawing in new cannabis users, at least not yet. Adolescents may be supplementing their standard cannabis smoking with new forms of cannabis use or they may be substituting new forms for smoking,” said Richard Miech, research professor at the Institute for Social Research.
CNN -
October 1, 2018
“The question is, ‘Is this inflaming racial passions or isn’t it?’ If a candidate wants to raise issues without inflaming racial passions, there are ways to do that,” said Vincent Hutchings, professor of political science, on the increase in political campaign attack ads that appear to exploit voters’ racial biases or xenophobia.
The Associated Press / The New York Times -
October 1, 2018
“The great majority of defendants who have been exonerated after an eyewitness mistakenly identified them were strangers to the witnesses,” said Samuel Gross, professor emeritus of law, debunking the notion that many wrongfully accused defendants are victimized by the faulty memories of people they know.
Mother Jones -
October 1, 2018
Research by Stephen Garcia, associate professor of organizational studies and psychology, suggests that people who display high-status markers, like driving a BMW or wearing a Tag Heuer watch, are less attractive as potential friends than those who aren’t as fancy.
The Atlantic -
September 30, 2018
“The link our research reveals between rape culture attitudes and actual sexual assault suggests excusing sexually violent behavior or normalizing sexual assault allegations as something all men do may encourage a culture of impunity that increases sexual assault without consequences,” co-wrote Yuri Zhukov, assistant professor of political science.
The Washington Post
