In the News
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April 6, 2017
“President Trump’s tweets are covered instantaneously by the media, have been regarded by various political actors as a key indicator of policy, and have been shown to influence the stock market. If nobody cared about these tweets or they were not covered by the media, they would not have a huge impact,” said Josh Pasek, assistant professor of communication studies.
The Christian Science Monitor -
April 6, 2017
Karthik Duraisamy, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, explained why rocket engines explode sometimes, and how technology has (and hasn’t) changed for rocket designers in the past decades.
Michigan Radio -
April 6, 2017
Daniel Fisher, director of the Museum of Paleontology and professor of paleontology, earth and environmental sciences, and ecology and evolutionary biology, was quoted in a story about theories on the extinction of mammoths and mastodons.
Great Lakes Echo -
April 5, 2017
Anne Curzan, professor of linguistics, education, and English language and literature, says English is flexible and can accommodate a transforming society and new technologies: “People have been worried this language will fall apart for a long time. It’s not going to fall apart.”
Quartz -
April 5, 2017
The scholarly work of Michael Heaney, assistant professor of organizational studies and political science, formed the basis of a new documentary on the antiwar movement in the decade after 9/11.
Inside Higher Ed -
April 5, 2017
Amanda Lotz, professor of communication studies and screen arts and cultures, says that CBS gets more than subscribers from its All Access streaming channel — it also gets data on what and how much viewers watch.
Marketplace -
April 4, 2017
Comments by Anna Kirkland, associate professor of women’s studies and political science, and associate director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, were featured in a story about how companies that make self-driving cars will deal with litigation.
Automotive News -
April 4, 2017
“In a world where Obamacare is not going to be repealed and replaced, do you work to try to make it succeed, or do you take steps to undermine it in order to continue blaming President Obama and the Democrats for the dysfunction of the health care system? Right now we don’t know the answer, and we are getting conflicting signals from the administration,” said Nicholas Bagley, professor of law.
The Associated Press -
April 4, 2017
Research by Eduardo Villamor, professor of epidemiology and research professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development, suggests that kids are more likely to develop childhood epilepsy if their mothers were overweight or obese early in pregnancy.
HealthDay -
April 3, 2017
“The notion that there just aren’t enough decently qualified people in the U.S., and that’s why you have to go overseas, I think is hype,” said John Bound, professor of economics, on the tech industry’s use of the federal H-1B visa program to hire up to 85,000 skilled guest workers each year.
The Boston Globe
