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April 5, 2018
“History shows that regulations work, and the fact that car manufacturers have clearly improved safety and cut emissions even while vehicle sales reached new highs contradicts the industry’s argument that regulations force them to build cars that customers don’t want to buy,” wrote John DeCicco, research professor at the U-M Energy Institute.
The Conversation -
April 5, 2018
“Conventional wisdom is that the current vaccine is the problem, but that’s not consistent with what we see,” said Aaron King, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and mathematics, about a new study on whooping cough.
Forbes -
April 4, 2018
President Mark Schlissel said he wants to raise the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants and preserve the in-state majority on campus. “As a public university, we should be much more representative of all kinds of diversity,” he said.
The Washington Post -
April 4, 2018
“The Reciprocity Ring is built around asking for and giving help. It taps the collective knowledge, networks and energy of a group to meet each person’s request,” said Wayne Baker, professor of organization behavior and resource management, and sociology. It’s similar to the Kula Ring, a form of ritualized gift exchange used by New Guinea’s Tobriand Islanders.
Forbes -
April 4, 2018
Mousumi Banerjee, research professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health and Comprehensive Cancer Center, grew up listening to the music of Indian songwriter, poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, and is working to make his music and lyrics more accessible to the world.
Michigan Radio -
April 3, 2018
“There shouldn’t be a reaction such as ‘Oh, goodie, it’s the lowest levels ever in Flint, what a wonderful thing, let’s just back off now.’ That would be just horrendous,” said Hernan Gomez, associate professor of emergency medicine, whose new study shows the amount of lead in the blood of Flint children dropped to a historic low in 2016.
The Detroit News -
April 3, 2018
William Frey, research professor at the Institute for Social Research’s Population Studies Center, was quoted in a story about the intent of several states to sue to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, arguing that the change would cause fewer Americans to be counted and violate the Constitution.
The New York Times -
April 3, 2018
“There is this enormous anxiety in the public health community about e-cigarettes leading kids to smoke — we don’t know that that’s true,” said Kenneth Warner, professor emeritus of health management and policy, who supports the FDA’s announcement to delay regulation of e-cigarettes, which can aid smokers looking to quit.
BuzzFeed News -
April 2, 2018
Su’ad Khabeer, associate professor of American culture, created a website that documents and analyzes the experience of black Muslim Americans, serving as a space for discussion and sharing of experiences — between members of the Muslim community, or people who just want to learn something about a community that may otherwise seem foreign to them.
Bustle -
April 2, 2018
Ella Atkins, professor of aerospace engineering, says M-Air, the university’s new outdoor drone lab, “will allow us to explore all the things we dream of doing with autonomous aerial vehicles … to research ways to surveil and collect data, possibly to forecast weather and earthquakes.”
The Detroit News
