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  1. January 17, 2017

    Research by Mark Ilgen, associate professor of psychiatry, and Lewei Allison Lin, addiction psychiatry fellow, found that fewer military veterans received prescriptions for opioids after a nationwide program to reduce doses of potentially dangerous drugs and drug combinations at Veterans Administration hospitals.

    Healio
  2. January 16, 2017

    “Universities can work to ensure that expert faculty members translate their policy-relevant ideas into the types of media that members of Congress read. This means going beyond the ivory tower and academic journals and instead training and inspiring scholars to publish action-oriented op-eds in popular Hill publications,” co-wrote Sridhar Kota, professor of mechanical engineering.

    Wired
  3. January 16, 2017

    Research by Ken Langa, professor of health management and policy, and internal medicine, shows that dementia among Americans over the age of 65 is on the decline — and higher levels of education and better treatment of diseases that lead to dementia could have a lot to do with it.

    Michigan Radio
  4. January 16, 2017

    Karandeep Singh, assistant professor of learning health sciences, says that wearable sensors might help doctors do a better job of detecting the onset of disease and monitoring its progression.

    Reuters
  5. January 15, 2017

    Research by Denis Sosyura, assistant professor of finance, found that investment fund managers from poor backgrounds deliver better returns than those born rich.

    Quartz
  6. January 15, 2017

    “If you already like someone, anything new they do gets the benefit of the doubt. If you already dislike someone, everything they subsequently touch is tainted. For many conservatives, Obamacare is the fruit of a poisonous tree,” said Scott Rick, associate professor of marketing.

    The Atlantic
  7. January 15, 2017

    Mike McGovern, associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in an article about the military mutiny over pay and working conditions in Ivory Coast, the fastest-growing economy in Africa.

    Chicago Tribune
  8. January 12, 2017

    “It is clear that the nuclear issue in North Korea is not going to disappear. With regard to (the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea), my thinking is ultimately the Trump administration will be supportive of it moving forward,” said LSA Dean Andrew Martin.

    The Korea Times
  9. January 12, 2017

    Comments by Thore Bergman, associate professor of psychology, and ecology and evolutionary biology, were featured in a story about the ability of baboons to make human-style vowel sounds.

    The Christian Science Monitor
  10. January 12, 2017

    “Viewing violent media content has many negative effects, including desensitization, a distorted view of reality and aggressive behavior … (and) young people are especially vulnerable to these effects,” said Scott Campbell, professor of communication studies.

    U.S. News & World Report