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October 10, 2019
“Plastics are having a moment right now. The plastics industry is having to have some real self-reflection as far as how to make products that are responsive to public outcry,” said Shelie Miller, associate professor of environment and sustainability, and civil and environmental engineering, in a story about how the Danish company Lego plans to redistribute donated Lego pieces — and lessen the plastic toy’s impact on the environment.
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October 10, 2019
“The public rhetoric has become really poisonous with the rise of extremist right-wing nationalist ideas that hearken back to organizations and ideologies that we haven’t seen since the 1930s in Europe. It’s been extremely disturbing,” said Brian Porter-Szucs, professor of history, on the trend toward populism and strongman leadership in Poland.
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October 9, 2019
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Japanese Studies, wrote an article about the nearly 150-year-old relationship between U-M and Japan: “Japan’s modernization and its relationship with the international community are deeply engraved in the history of the University of Michigan. … The first group of foreign students visited in the 1870s.”
Newsweek Japan -
October 9, 2019
“Reducing the impact of our diets — by eating fewer calories and less animal-based foods — could achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. It’s climate action that is accessible to everyone, because we all decide on a daily basis what we eat,” said Martin Heller, a researcher at the U-M Center for Sustainable Systems.
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October 9, 2019
“Even a good move like this, important as it is symbolically, isn’t going to make a meaningful dent in the horror show that is literally millions of refugees waiting for decades with no solution in sight,” said James Hathaway, professor of law, on New Zealand’s recent elimination of a policy restricting refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries.
The New York Times -
October 8, 2019
“It looks like a search-and-destroy, and it sends a chilling message to other states,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy, environment and political science, on the Trump administration’s fight over California’s fuel-economy standards intended to weaken the environmental statutes of the country’s most populous state.
The New York Times -
October 8, 2019
Sarah Miller, assistant professor of business economics and public policy, discussed her research that suggests the Affordable Care Act, designed to improve people’s physical health, also has improved their financial well-being.
Michigan Radio -
October 8, 2019
“Einstein has been right for 100 years — so to claim that his theory needs a correction is extraordinary. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary new findings,” said Dragan Huterer, professor of physics, referring to scientists who doubt the existence of dark energy and contend that the movements of galaxies can be explained by a tweaked version of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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October 7, 2019
“In animals, it has been found to have the potential to cause cancer. NDMA is found in some foods and even in water at times, but it is certainly unfortunate that it has been in a variety of drug products since July 2018,” said James Brian Byrd, assistant professor of internal medicine, regarding the FDA’s recent announcement that Zantac and its generic form, ranitidine, may contain low levels of a probable human carcinogen.
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October 7, 2019
Jane Dutton, professor emerita of business administration and psychology, says that both well-being and performance thrive in workplaces that care for the whole employee: “These environments allow employees to adapt to their circumstances — whether around mental health or any other challenges happening in their lives.”
Forbes
