In the News
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May 7, 2018
“I think we’ll see the end of those crazy four-lines, unlimited-everything, free-week-in-Toledo-if-you-sign-up-now deals,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business, commenting on the $26.5 billion merger agreement between T-Mobile and Sprint.
Marketplace -
May 7, 2018
Betsey Stevenson, associate professor of public policy, and economics, was interviewed about the slack in the U.S. labor market, lagging wage growth and the tax consequences of divorce.
Bloomberg (21:52 mark) -
May 6, 2018
“We’re not out to provoke ICE, just to offer a path to a reasonable solution. Demonstrating ties to a community, ties to a profession, ties to a respected program at a major university for this journalist, who wants so much to move forward, that must surely open a door to resolution,” said Wallace House Director Lynette Clemetson, regarding the invitation to Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, who is awaiting appeal of his deportation case, to serve as a Senior Press Freedom Fellow at U-M.
The New Yorker -
May 6, 2018
Drug prices are “easy to raise and harder to lower, particularly if there’s no competition. The mystery isn’t, ‘Why don’t drug prices go down?’ It’s more, ‘Why don’t they go up more?'” said Nicholson Price, assistant professor of law.
The Washington Post -
May 6, 2018
Rajeev Batra, professor of marketing, and Fred Feinberg, professor of marketing and statistics, discussed the recent CMO Forum at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the school’s innovative approach to marketing education.
Forbes -
May 3, 2018
Justin Kasper, associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and colleagues simulated the conditions around the sun by using four older model IMAX cinema projectors they found on eBay: “It turns out a movie theater bulb on an IMAX projector runs at about 5,700 degrees Kelvin (5,427 °C) — the same effective temperature as the surface of the sun.”
BBC Sky at Night Magazine -
May 3, 2018
A pill that makes tumors light up when exposed to infrared light — successful in tests with mice — could more effectively help diagnose breast cancer, according to research by Greg Thurber, assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, and Sumit Bhatnagar, doctoral student in chemical engineering.
UPI -
May 3, 2018
Mary Sue Coleman, U-M president emerita and president of the Association of American Universities, said the focus of efforts to address campus sexual assault must be expanded to include the graduate student population.
MLive -
May 2, 2018
Timothy James, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and associate curator of fungi at the U-M Herbarium, was interviewed for a story about unusual mushrooms that have intriguing shapes and colors.
National Geographic -
May 2, 2018
“Michigan’s proposed work requirement is one of the most stringent put forward to date. (It) does not provide funding for supportive services … that could help individuals find work,” wrote Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation; Megan Foster Friedman, senior analyst at the center; and Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and associate professor of social work and public policy.
Detroit Free Press
