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  1. March 25, 2018

    Rachel Niemer, director of strategic initiatives in the Office of Academic Innovation, was quoted in an article about the challenges faced by university innovation teams in explaining their mission to other campus stakeholders.

    EdSurge
  2. March 25, 2018

    Alan Deardorff, professor of economics and public policy, says a 25-percent tariff on steel will make the Mexican border wall more costly: “The wall would be made in large part of steel, the price of which is intended to rise by close to 25 percent. That’s the purpose of the tariffs, since that is how it helps the U.S. steel industry, though Trump and his advisers like to suggest that the tariff can help them without raising prices.”

    CBS News
  3. March 22, 2018

    Research by Martin Heller, research specialist at the Center for Sustainable Systems, and colleagues found that 46 percent of the total emissions from food in the U.S. comes from the diets of just one-fifth of the population — mostly those who eat a lot of meat.

    Popular Science
  4. March 22, 2018

    An image of a photon triggering the photosynthesis process’ initial energy conversion step was captured for the first time by Jennifer Ogilvie, professor of physics and biophysics, and her research team: “Part of my motivation for studying the natural photosynthetic system is (the) need to develop more advanced technology for harvesting solar energy.”

    UPI
  5. March 22, 2018

    Jason Goldstick, research assistant professor of emergency medicine, and colleagues developed a scoring system to better sort out levels of risk for future gun violence — as victim or perpetrator — among youths who seek emergency room treatment for a violence-related injury.

    The Christian Science Monitor
  6. March 21, 2018

    “Obviously this is a real tragedy, and it will take time to know what happened. … We firmly believe a combination of on-road testing, enclosed facilities like Mcity, and computer simulation will be required to develop autonomous technology,” said Carrie Morton, deputy director of Mcity, regarding the recent fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona.

    The New York Times
  7. March 21, 2018

    Lionel Robert, associate professor of information, discussed the overall safety of autonomous vehicles, the regulatory atmosphere surrounding self-driving cars and the history of public fear in reaction to technological innovation.

    Michigan Radio's "Stateside"
  8. March 21, 2018

    “It’s one thing for a person … to avoid this language so as to reach out to a neighbor or someone else and get them to act to adapt to climate change without triggering the political identities that ‘climate change’ often does. But by the federal government avoiding this language, it sends a message that this is not climate change,” said Kaitlin Raimi, assistant professor of public policy, on the Trump administration’s silence on climate change in the wake of last summer’s devastating hurricanes.

    Scientific American
  9. March 20, 2018

    “Frankly, it’s like Trump and his constituency. They’re people who really take pride in Russia coming back into the leadership positions of the world. They like Putin’s persona, and he’s been very careful to cultivate that,” said Melvyn Levitsky, clinical professor of public policy, commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent re-election.

    U.S. News & World Report
  10. March 20, 2018

    “The toxicity of plastic really depends on the chemical makeup and the physical structure … the plastic may have surface properties that make it attract or carry chemicals or other compounds of concern,” said John Meeker, professor of environmental health sciences, in an article about microplastics found in bottled water worldwide.

    BuzzFeed News