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January 23, 2018
Charles Watkinson, director of the University of Michigan Press, said that a publishing platform under development by U-M Press and Michigan Publishing will allow works with digital content to be displayed as ebooks.
Inside Higher Ed -
January 22, 2018
Tiya Miles, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, American culture, history, and women’s studies, explores the deep roots of slavery in metro Detroit in her new book, “The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.”
Detroit Free Press -
January 22, 2018
“Look at the competition they’ve created among all the applicants. It’s brilliant to do this publicly, pitting one city against the other. They’re really in the catbird seat to negotiate a good deal,” said Peter Allen, lecturer in real estate, and urban and regional planning, on Amazon’s search for a location for a second headquarters.
Chicago Tribune -
January 22, 2018
Research by Sarah Domoff, research faculty associate at the Center for Human Growth and Development, suggests that how children use electronic devices — not how much time they spend on them — is the strongest predictor of emotional or social problems connected with screen addiction.
The Economic Times -
January 21, 2018
“This is the single most controversial — and frankly, divisive — issue I’ve seen in my 40 years studying tobacco control policy,” said Kenneth Warner, professor emeritus of health management and policy, on the FDA plan to drastically cut nicotine levels in cigarettes so that they are essentially non-addictive — but could open the door for companies to sell a new generation of alternative tobacco products.
The New York Times -
January 21, 2018
An article touting the merits of a modified form of a high-deductible health plan that pays for primary care visits and medications without subjecting them to a deductible was co-written by Samyukta Mullangi, house officer in internal medicine, and Mark Fendrick, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and professor of internal medicine and health management and policy.
Harvard Business Review -
January 21, 2018
Michael Heaney, assistant professor of organizational studies and political science, believes the ongoing prosecution of Inauguration Day protesters isn’t to convict people of crimes, but to put them through the pain and inconvenience of the judicial process: “I will actually be surprised if they go forward with all the trials. There’s got to be political pressure at some point to say, ‘you know, we’ve got other things to do.'”
USA Today -
January 18, 2018
“The pieces that are somewhere in Michigan right now, they’re left over from the formation of planets. They didn’t make it into a planet like the Earth, so they can tell you something about the history of what happened before the Earth existed. We can use them to track where the water came from, where the carbon came from, to understand our own origins,” said Edwin Bergin, professor and chair of astronomy, commenting on the meteor that flashed across Southeast Michigan this week.
Newsweek -
January 18, 2018
Michael Liemohn, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, said the Michigan meteor was a “bolide,” a meteor that reaches the lower atmosphere: “If it’s a bigger rock — say basketball size or bigger — then it can make it to the lower atmosphere and the air is dense enough that it’s not just a streak of light across the sky, but a substantial fireball and an eventual explosion as this rock reaches catastrophic failure at some point.”
Fortune -
January 18, 2018
Larry Ruff, professor of earth and environmental sciences, said the Michigan meteor produced a strong and unusual seismic signature, but “was an explosion in the atmosphere, not an earthquake, and it produced a seismogram that is very different from what you get from a small, regional earthquake.”
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