In the News
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November 18, 2025
“Michigan’s research expenditures are more than just a number. They represent U-M’s leadership in improving health, advancing technologies and serving as a trusted partner for the most important challenges of our time,” said Arthur Lupia, vice president for research and innovation, on U-M’s record-breaking spending of $2.16 billion on research initiatives during fiscal year 2025. “Our research community brings together world-class expertise and a shared commitment to public service,” said President Domenico Grasso. “Through interdisciplinary collaboration and purposeful investment, U-M continues to drive progress in a rapidly changing research environment.”
MLive -
November 18, 2025
“The ’70s saw a very purposeful destruction of the Black community, and reminding people … and showing what that community could look like is huge. Hopefully, we can learn from these newspapers. … Maybe looking at that history and seeing it still happen will inspire some sort of change,” said Callum Carr, associate archivist at the UM-Flint Library, who is working to digitize the Black newspapers that covered Flint for much of its history.
Christian Science Monitor -
November 18, 2025
“While the forecast models are really good at picking up when lake effect snow is going to happen, in general, it doesn’t always pick up where these bands are exactly going to land and for how long. That’s because models do better at modeling the larger-scale system, like when the big storm moves over the region, as opposed to where exactly the winds are going to land over the lakes,” said Abby Hutson, assistant research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research.
Fox Weather -
November 17, 2025
“Teens struggling with body image issues are especially susceptible to deceptive marketing, and this legislation would protect them from predatory industries that profit from their insecurities,” said Kendrin Sonneville, associate professor of nutritional sciences, about a new bill in the Michigan Legislature that would prohibit minors from buying supplements for diet and muscle growth.
MLive -
November 17, 2025
Investing in scientific research is critical for the safety, prosperity and well-being of people that live, work and play in the Great Lakes, said Greg Dick, professor and director of the Cooperative Institute of Great Lakes Research: “It supports the restoration and revitalization of communities. It supports economic activity, like the Great Lakes shipping industry, like safe drinking water for communities. So, I really think that these investments that we make in Great Lakes science are cost-efficient and cost-saving.”
WEMU Radio -
November 17, 2025
“The term ‘colored insane’ reflects the language of the time. Insanity was a term that referred to what we now think of as mental illness, and it wasn’t derogatory in that time. And so it reflects the way that language changes over time, and even what we might now see as progressive could be very well derogatory in the future,” said Diana Martha Louis, professor of women’s and gender studies and author of a new book about the experiences of Black women in postbellum 19th-century American asylums.
Michigan Public (at 32:43 mark) -
November 14, 2025
Elective MRI scans can do more harm than good, says Matthew Davenport, clinical professor of radiology. “The risk is that the false positives dominate, and you end up with negative health value. You end up generating a lot of unnecessary testing,” he said, describing a scenario where a small anomaly on one of these scans leads to a “cascade of care,” where people pursue issues with biopsies or other invasive procedures that can lead to complications and negative results.
ABC News -
November 14, 2025
“The number of these counterterrorism investigations that the FBI leads … we’re talking thousands on a daily basis, and that’s just here in the United States,” said Javed Ali, associate professor of practice of public policy, about the fight against terrorism. “One of the challenges in the intelligence community and law enforcement perspective is how do folks actually know that this threat-related activity is actually happening?”
WXYZ/Detroit -
November 14, 2025
“Some athletes, professional or collegiate, can justify they’re not, quote-unquote, ‘throwing’ a game. They’re only doing something small. They’re not impacting the game,” said Michal Lorenc, clinical assistant professor of sport management, about prop bets — wagers on specific events or individual player performances within a game that do not directly depend on the final outcome.
National Public Radio -
November 13, 2025
“Everyone in Michigan loses when we impede international students’ ability to study and work here,” wrote UM-Dearborn interim Chancellor Gabriella Scarlatta and interim Provost Ghassan Kridli. “International students pay full tuition, which helps us provide generous scholarships and otherwise keep costs low for our domestic students. … Our concern extends far beyond tuition dollars, however. International graduates are able to stay and work in the United States for a period of time … they are helping Michigan’s automotive, mobility and other tech-based industries hire the highly trained engineers, software developers and data scientists they desperately need.”
Crain's Detroit Business
