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April 16, 2018
“The next ‘Equal Occupational Fatality Day’ will occur more than 11 years from now — on May 30, 2029. That date symbolizes how far into the future women will be able to continue working before they experience the same loss of life that men experienced in 2016 from work-related deaths,” according to Mark Perry, professor of finance at UM-Flint.
The Wall Street Journal -
April 15, 2018
“Very few issues cannot wait until morning, and that is an important message for any dean’s office to emphasize. …We might just be trying to clean out our inboxes, but to the recipient, a late-night message from one of us can feel like an imperative to respond immediately,” wrote LSA Dean Andrew Martin and Anne Curzan, LSA associate dean for humanities, whose no-email-after-hours office policy is key to building a positive workplace.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed -
April 15, 2018
Stephen Strobbe, clinical associate professor of nursing, was quoted in a story about how nursing schools are adding programs to their curricula to prevent and treat opioid addiction.
Inside Higher Ed -
April 15, 2018
“Females have a higher susceptibility to autoimmune diseases than men — in fact, autoimmune diseases as a group rank among the leading 10 causes of death for women. For many years it was assumed that hormones such as estrogen were involved, but more recently, it has been suggested that genetic factors linked to the X chromosome may be involved,” said Emily Somers, associate professor of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and environmental health sciences.
Reader's Digest -
April 12, 2018
“At that time, which is now 25 or so years ago, there were more calls to complain about me to the University of Michigan, to say I should be fired, than had happened to anybody in the history of the university,” said Arline Geronimus, professor of health behavior and health education, who first linked societal-induced stress and discrimination of African-American women to black infant mortality rates.
The New York Times Magazine -
April 12, 2018
Research by Kate Andrias, assistant professor of law, was cited in an article about ways to save the American labor movement.
Vox -
April 12, 2018
“The issue of neutrino energy is so important. It is extraordinarily rare to know the energy of a neutrino and how much energy it transfers to the target atom. For neutrino-based studies of nuclei, this is the first time it has been achieved,” said Joshua Spitz, professor of physics, on the first precise measurement recorded of the interactions between neutrinos hitting the atomic nuclei in the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab particle detector.
UPI -
April 11, 2018
“As Hungary’s case suggests, for elections to sustain and reflect democratic competition, voters must exist in a system involving a free press, an independent judiciary and an international environment that rewards respect for democratic norms. Put simply, shoring up democracy requires more than just voters and elections,” co-wrote Nahomi Ichino, assistant professor of political science.
The Washington Post -
April 11, 2018
Ethan Kross, professor of psychology, says social media postings often stir up strong emotions that affect behavior, especially when many people present unrealistically optimal images of themselves online: “If other people are doing better than we are, that can get us to feel bad. It reminds us of what things could be like.”
USA Today -
April 11, 2018
A story on the reopening of talks between the Trump administration and the state of California on car emissions standards featured comments by Barry Rabe, professor of public policy, political science, and environment and sustainability.
The New York Times
