In the News
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October 7, 2019
“Many organizations throw billions into building magnificent buildings, but they don’t hear this very simple idea: If you don’t understand how your social and spatial environments are interacting, more likely than not all that investment is for naught,” said Felix Kabo, assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research.
Detroit Free Press -
October 4, 2019
Comments by Helen Burgess, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Laboratory, and Mark Moyad, senior research associate in urology and director of preventive and alternative medicine, were featured in a story about the safety of taking melatonin — the country’s most-used sleep-aid — every night. “Some of the emerging science is showing that in people with higher levels of inflammation — which could be because they’re obese, or because they’re in the (intensive care unit) for a transplant — melatonin in the range of 6 mg to 10 mg may decrease markers of inflammation,” Burgess said.
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October 4, 2019
Research led by Julia Lee, assistant professor of management and organizations, found that the more a person lies, the worse they are at reading other people’s emotions — suggesting that in order to protect ourselves from feeling bad about our dishonesty, we mentally distance ourselves from other people, making it harder to understand and empathize with others.
Inc. -
October 4, 2019
“People aren’t constitutional scholars. They trust their elected officials from their party to know the rules of politics. And when members of their own party say that someone has broken the rules, that’s when public opinion will really begin to change,” said Nicholas Valentino, professor of political science, who doesn’t expect to see much more fluctuation in the number of people who support or oppose impeachment of Donald Trump unless Republican leaders begin to break ranks and support it.
USA Today -
October 3, 2019
“Trade policies have had the greatest negative impact on consumers, with a near record one-third of all consumers negatively mentioning trade policies in September when asked to explain in their own words the factors underlying their economic expectations,” said Richard Curtin, director of the Surveys of Consumers.
CNBC -
October 3, 2019
Dave Ulrich, professor of business administration, argues that today’s companies need to replace old hierarchical models with what he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem,” the blueprint for younger, fast-moving companies like Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Supercell: “There are enormous and dramatic changes in almost every part of our lives. And so, hierarchical organizations simply don’t respond.”
Harvard Business Review -
October 3, 2019
Matthew Shapiro, professor of economics and director of the Survey Research Center, says the $4 billion cost of the last three government shutdowns, as reported by a Senate subcommittee, “understates the cost of the shutdowns, because of all the indirect effects,” such as restaurants losing business, purchases that were never made and contractors who were never reimbursed.
Marketplace -
October 2, 2019
“Unfortunately, the message that has been conveyed by many health authorities is that vaping — in general — is responsible for the illnesses. Nothing could be further from the truth. … A great concern is that misunderstanding the situation will get adult smokers who have quit smoking by vaping to give up vaping and go back to smoking. Smoking, with the 7,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke, is dramatically more dangerous than vaping,” said Kenneth Warner, professor and dean emeritus of public health.
Detroit Metro Times -
October 2, 2019
Research by Joshua Newell, associate professor of environment and sustainability, shows the number of informal footpaths in Detroit has plummeted in the past decade due to the city fencing off and transferring vacant land to private developers and others: “The city might want to formalize this, to look at how residents have used these paths, to facilitate the flow of traffic and also to deal with safety challenges.”
Reuters -
October 2, 2019
It’s important to try to go to bed every night and wake up each morning around the same time, although people tend to go to sleep and wake up much later on the weekends — making it hard to adjust, said Cathy Goldstein, associate professor of neurology at the Sleep Disorders Center: “It’s like you’re flying from L.A. back to New York.”
CNBC
