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October 1, 2019
“This is clear evidence that the president himself is reaching out on his own initiative to ask a foreign government to go after the president’s domestic political rivals. That’s very bad. It’s the sort of thing that quite clearly rises to the level of an impeachable offense. The system isn’t built to withstand a president who is going to try to use all of his power and all of his influence to harass his political opponents,” said Richard Primus, professor of law.
WDET Radio -
October 1, 2019
“Mostly (they) get really depressed by the first part of the course, and then they pull it together at the end when they see how they can handle it. My emotion more and more is moving into acceptance of loss,” said Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and environment and sustainability, on the anxiety many of his students feel about the effects of climate change.
The Associated Press -
October 1, 2019
“The guidelines are not saying, ‘You should try this.’ They’re saying, ‘If you want to try, here’s how you should do it,'” said Kevin Boehnke, research investigator in anesthesiology and the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, who helped write Arthritis Foundation guidelines for people who want to try the cannabis-derived ingredient CBD to relieve pain.
NBC Today -
September 30, 2019
“We find nothing to suggest that granting someone a set-aside puts the public at risk, as skeptics have sometimes suggested. Those who receive set-asides are less likely to commit a new crime than the general adult population of Michigan. The rate of serious or violent re-offending is almost zero,” wrote Sonja Starr, professor of law, and J.J. Prescott, professor of law and economics, about a package of bills in the Michigan Legislature that would set aside criminal records for certain offenders through expungement.
The Detroit News -
September 30, 2019
“My patient should not have to have a bake sale to afford her insulin,” said A. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, and director of U-M’s Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, on the high cost of health insurance and ever-rising premiums that have forced some Americans to drop coverage.
Bloomberg -
September 30, 2019
“It depends on what’s going on that day, but people are bringing in some of the issues into (therapy) sessions more than I can remember in a long time,” said Michelle Riba, professor of psychiatry, commenting on research that found the stress of ugly national politics has started to affect the emotional and physical health of many Americans.
U.S. News & World Report -
September 27, 2019
“The interaction between insecurity caused by rapid cultural change and economic insecurity drives the xenophobic reaction that brought Trump to power and is fueling similar reactions in other high-income countries. And the rise of the knowledge society is driving this polarization even farther,” said Ronald Inglehart, professor emeritus of political science.
The New York Times -
September 27, 2019
People with mental health issues get frustrated by expensive and time-consuming treatment regimens that don’t show immediate results, says Angela Beck, clinical assistant professor of health behavior and health education: “It’s, you know, ‘the providers are too far away,’ ‘I don’t find what I like,’ ‘it didn’t work for me before, so I’m not going back again.'”
MLive -
September 27, 2019
Eating large amounts of ultraprocessed foods may actually change brain circuitry in ways that increase sensitivity to food cues, says Kent Berridge, professor of psychology and neuroscience, who has shown this effect in rodents: ” … but my guess is that we aren’t going to find that it affects all of us in the same way. My guess is that in the case of obesity, we are going to find … there are different avenues to becoming obese depending on one’s genes.”
Scientific American -
September 26, 2019
Comments by Cynthia Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and of electrical engineering and computer science, were featured in a story about the viability of neural interface technology — brain implants — for medical uses, and perhaps eventually for nonmedical applications such as brain-controlled typing.
The Guardian (U.K.)
