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October 29, 2019
Research by Susan Gelman, professor of psychology and linguistics, and colleagues suggests that children eat more when their mothers eat more. Gelman said if parents want kids to eat certain foods, “They should eat foods they want their child to try and not just talk the talk but walk the walk.”
WILX/Lansing -
October 29, 2019
“It’s a catch-22 that a lot of our communities are trying to figure out. A lot of our problems are because we don’t have jobs, but if there are jobs, do we have the workforce for them?” said Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and professor of social work and public policy, on the lack of jobs and workers in impoverished areas of rural Michigan.
Detroit Free Press -
October 29, 2019
“Millennials hit a perfect storm. They borrowed to make their tuition payments. They left school only to hit a labor market of high unemployment and low earnings. And this precipitated a takeoff in loan defaults,” said Susan Dynarski, professor of public policy, education and economics, commenting on the student debt crisis in the years since the 2008 recession.
The New York Times -
October 28, 2019
“If they use it to show you specific ads, that’s maybe one thing that’s a bit creepy. But I think the more concerning part is if they allow other people to target you based on your mental state or sell this information to data brokers,” said Florian Schaub, assistant professor of information, and electrical engineering and computer science, on the use of emotion-recognition technology by tech companies.
Scientific American -
October 28, 2019
“If you think the answer is a windmill and an electric car, you’re not thinking big enough. The answer is not more cars, it is rethinking mobility,” said Andrew Hoffman, professor of environment and sustainability, and of management and organizations, who says people must think more creatively about how we address the threats of climate change.
Michigan Radio -
October 28, 2019
Anne Pitcher, professor of political science and Afroamerican and African studies, asserts that the contested results of Mozambique’s recent general elections, which saw violence, vote rigging and a landslide victory for the ruling party, could jeopardize an August peace deal: “Irregularities affect the magnitude of the results — but not the eventual winner.”
The Washington Post -
October 25, 2019
Nearly half of parents with at least one child aged 4 through 9 said they had turned down a play date because they did not feel comfortable leaving their child in the other parents’ care, according to Sarah Clark, co-director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health: “How much of this is about … anxiety as opposed to the actual situation out there?”
The New York Times -
October 25, 2019
Dealing with passive-aggressive behavior in the workplace is not only frustrating, it can also be bad for engagement and productivity, says Lindred Greer, associate professor for management and organizations: “Similar to any form of aggressive behavior, direct or indirect, it is contagious and can sink performance.”
CNN -
October 25, 2019
Ask President Mark Schlissel what he’s most proud of during his first five-year term in office, and the answer is the Go Blue Guarantee, which offers four years of free undergraduate tuition to qualified, in-state students from Michigan families earning $65,000 annually or less. “Educational opportunity is a mission that the university is responsible for across our state, and I know there are talented kids in all parts of the socioeconomic spectrum.”
The Detroit News -
October 24, 2019
Stephen Berrey, associate professor of American culture, commented on what now are known as Jim Crow laws, the racist system of segregating people, mainly blacks from whites: “One of the challenges why Jim Crow often seems like it’s in the past, people tend to think that, ‘Oh, it was a few laws, and we got rid of segregation laws, and we got the Voting Rights Act, so that must have taken care of it.’ It didn’t.”
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