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December 2, 2024
Vaccines aren’t distributed evenly throughout Michigan, and those who are vaccine-hesitant may be clustering together geographically more, says Abram Wagner, assistant professor of epidemiology: “There are some areas where there are few individuals who are vaccinated. We really need to hone in on those … neighborhoods, communities, social groups which have low vaccination coverage.”
The Detroit News -
December 2, 2024
Jennifer Garner, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, says it’s hard to disentangle some of prospective Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s more reasonable food-improvement goals with the false health claims he has spread: “I think there’s rightful concern based on other issues and how his approach to those issues might play in here.”
BBC -
December 2, 2024
“Black students understandably want DEI efforts to eradicate anti-Blackness, but as is the case with many intractable societal problems, the total eradication of deeply held attitudes requires more than DEI programming, which cannot realistically be expected to completely undo years of socialization,” wrote Kevin Cokley, professor of psychology and associate chair for diversity initiatives.
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education -
November 26, 2024
Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, expects the Federal Reserve to slowly cut interest rates now that inflation has cooled: “(Michigan has) an interest rate-sensitive economy with the auto industry, with manufacturing, so we think that’s going to help and we expect job growth to resume over the next couple of years.”
Michigan Public -
November 26, 2024
“Some teens have actually said they regret getting a smartphone early. These kids didn’t realize they would have so many new distractions or social drama in their lives,” said Jenny Radesky, associate professor of pediatrics, who suggests that parents should discuss how their child plans to use their phone and if they are ready for the implications of this use.
WILX (Lansing) -
November 26, 2024
Unmarried African American friends are more likely than white Americans to form family-like relationships, or surrogate families, where they take care of each other’s needs, says Robert Taylor, professor of social work: “In general, women are closer to their friends than men and there are some differences in terms of friendship contact.”
WEMU Radio -
November 25, 2024
“The high number of individuals that have experienced firearm violence in some capacity is alarming and something that should be considered when developing policies and having conversations around immigration,” said Eugenio Weigend Vargas, research fellow at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.
Border Report -
November 25, 2024
Drinking Diet Coke signals the body that it wants sugar, but it brings no relief from that craving because no calories come in. “That combination of sweet taste plus caffeine is just something our brain has never really been equipped to handle. … Even if you’re not getting the calories your body expects, the uniqueness of getting that big burst of sweetness and the caffeine is stimulating in the gut,” said Ashley Gearhardt, professor of psychology.
Inverse -
November 25, 2024
“Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the motion of massive objects in a gravitational field that they create. … The discovery of the accelerating universe, however, led to suggestions that maybe general relativity needs to be modified,” said Dragan Huterer, professor of physics, who helped track how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years and found that gravity acts as physicist Albert Einstein predicted it would in his groundbreaking 1915 theory of general relativity.
Reuters -
November 22, 2024
“There are many different reasons why artificial intelligence is important to public health students. AI could help us do a better job of figuring out how we might get in front of the next pandemic, things that are as big or as societally important as that,” said Sharon Kardia, professor of epidemiology and associate dean for education at the School of Public Health.
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