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July 23, 2019
“I could see Amazon using the information to target advertising that would steer customers to its own new pharmacy venture. Amazon could also share the information it gets from Alexa Health for targeted advertising by third parties in the same way it currently uses personal information,” said Jodyn Platt, assistant professor of learning health sciences, on Amazon’s new partnership with Britain’s National Health Service.
Los Angeles Times -
July 23, 2019
Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and earth and environmental sciences, says the extreme heat caused by climate change will not occur in isolation — there will be droughts, wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events that will compound the impacts of the heat: “Our past climate can no longer guide us. We have to build and adapt to what’s coming.”
National Geographic -
July 22, 2019
“Any effort to combat sexual harassment in the workplace is a step in the right direction (but) … when workers lack basic rights on the job, it is much harder to speak out against sexual harassment and to pursue remedies,” said Kate Andrias, professor of law.
ABC News -
July 22, 2019
“To Republicans, Trump is simply saying: ‘Hey, if you don’t like America, you can leave. That is not at all controversial. If you already support Trump, then it’s very easy to interpret his comments that way. … (He) is doing exactly what Republicans want him to do. He’s taking on groups that they oppose,” said Vincent Hutchings, professor of political science.
Reuters -
July 16, 2019
“For a long time, there’s sort of been a bargain between the public and research universities: We do research, we do advanced education. In return, the public gives us resources, and then the freedom to explore and discover. And I think the societal respect for the success of that enterprise seems to be diminishing,” said President Mark Schlissel.
Bridge Magazine -
July 16, 2019
Research by Dorceta Taylor, professor of environmental sociology, suggests a lack of transparency when it comes to demographic data within environmental organizations: “It is certainly a curious phenomenon. Is it pushback against this idea that diversity is something important?”
Michigan Radio -
July 16, 2019
“The astronaut office viewed scientists as pipe-smoking oddities having unruly hair and wearing baggy tweed jackets with leather patches on our elbows,” said Tony England, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at UM-Dearborn and NASA’s first scientist astronaut, whose ingenuity helped save the Apollo 13 crew.
The Oakland Press -
July 16, 2019
“It does suggest that the Women’s March has made sustained efforts to organize women in a way that involves many different issues, including race, sexuality, class and religion — and that the large majority of its participants embrace those values,” wrote Michael Heaney, adjunct research assistant professor at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, whose research suggests that the Women’s March has lived up to its stated commitment to intersectional activism.
The Washington Post -
July 16, 2019
“For American science to advance, basic and applied research must be openly and widely shared. At the same time, the United States must continue to benefit — as it has for decades — from the world’s best and brightest scholars coming to the country to study and work. Indiscriminate restrictions on either could do irreparable harm to the U.S. scientific enterprise,” wrote Mary Sue Coleman, U-M president emerita.
Science -
July 9, 2019
August Evrard, professor of physics and astronomy, and colleagues used a method of weighing the quantities of matter in galaxy clusters — the largest objects in our universe — that will yield fresh insight into the relationship between ordinary matter that emits light and dark matter, and about how our universe is expanding.
Space Daily
