In the News
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August 29, 2017
“As cruel as it may sound to those who are long on indignation and short on economics, market forces and market prices will address the post-disaster shortages in Texas and Louisiana more quickly and more effectively than government-determined, nonmarket- based prices that result from price gouging laws,” wrote Mark Perry, professor of finance at UM-Flint.
Newsweek -
August 22, 2017
Comments by Lauren Ranalli, director of the Adolescent Health Initiative at Michigan Medicine, were featured in a story about the impact of federal funding cuts to teen pregnancy prevention programs in the United States.
CNN -
August 22, 2017
“Increasingly, business leaders are the most powerful social change agents — often much more influential than elected politicians,” said David Mayer, associate professor of management and organizations.
The Washington Post -
August 22, 2017
Alan Deardorff, professor of economics and public policy, says the Trump administration’s priority to reduce the trade deficit is driven more by political concerns rather than economic development: “If they succeed and come with an agreement with Canada and Mexico, they will probably claim that what they have negotiated would reduce the trade deficit. But that is just not true.”
Xinhua (China) -
August 22, 2017
Jeremy Kress, lecturer in business law and a senior research fellow at the Center on Finance, Law and Policy, was interviewed about the changes in the boardroom at scandal-besieged Wells Fargo.
Marketplace -
August 22, 2017
Colin Gunckel, associate professor of American culture, and of screen arts and cultures, says the Mexican film industry had little success in the American market until Pantelion Films, billed as “the first Latino Hollywood Studio,” was formed in 2010: “They’re moving away from the idea of a Mexican theatrical film as an art film and moving toward popular appeal. … They’re even in Redboxes in the middle of Michigan.”
Public Radio International -
August 15, 2017
Elliot Soloway, professor of education, information and electrical engineering, questions the efficacy of mastery-based learning, rejecting the notion that students have learned something simply because they can pass a series of assessments: “Mastery folks don’t understand the fundamentals of what learning is about.”
The New York Times -
August 15, 2017
Howard Markel, professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine, wrote a column about the Kellogg brothers and their breakfast legacy that touches on nutrition, convenience, advertising and mass-manufactured food.
CNN -
August 15, 2017
“The question of how people of different ethnicities, cultures and religions build societies together is notoriously difficult, but we might start by trying to understand European states’ policies on immigration/integration over the past half-century,” said Rita Chin, associate professor of history, in an interview about her new book that examines the crisis of multiculturalism in Europe.
Times Higher Education -
August 15, 2017
Thomas Johengen, research scientist and associate director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, and colleagues are experimenting with a new technology — a lake-bottom “robotic lab” that monitors toxins — to test water and give information and early warnings about pollution.
Smithsonian.com
