In the News
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March 29, 2017
“Trump’s attempt to transpose his business experience directly to politics did not fare well. This is to be expected, because the games are different. You cannot play basketball with a tennis strategy. There’s a reason the games of politics and policy are played by professional politicians. Newcomers have a steep learning curve, as the president is discovering,” said George Tsebelis, professor of political science.
The Washington Post -
March 28, 2017
Comments by Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and environmental policy, were featured in an article about the Trump administration’s planned cuts in environmental monitoring.
Scientific American -
March 28, 2017
“We tend to think of prisoners as people who are all defined by the very worst thing they ever did. We want people to know something else about them, to give a fuller picture of who these people are in their human complexity,” said Ashley Lucas, associate professor of theatre and drama and the Residential College, commenting on the Prison Creative Arts Project currently featured on campus.
Michigan Radio -
March 28, 2017
While drug and alcohol problems are associated with a higher risk of suicide among military veterans, the increased danger is particularly high with opioid abuse, according to a study by Kipling Bohnert, assistant professor of psychiatry.
Reuters -
March 27, 2017
“One of the last important acts of the Obama administration was to reaffirm more stringent fuel-economy standards … but the recently announced review of those standards by the Trump administration is bad news for the prospects of reducing both transportation emissions and the country’s reliance on fossil fuels,” wrote research professor Michael Sivak and project manager Brandon Schoettle of the U-M Transportation Research Institute.
The New York Times -
March 27, 2017
“When we sleep well, we feel better — but there may also be more than that. If you’re irritable and having difficulty with interpersonal relationships, that could affect your well being. We also see changes in inflammatory markers with poor sleep, so people might actually physically feel worse when they’re not sleeping well,” said Cathy Goldstein, assistant professor of neurology.
Time -
March 27, 2017
“‘The test of a first-rate intelligence,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, ‘is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.’ Maybe so. But that doesn’t explain how so many Americans adore their Medicare but still express bitter hatred for government intervention in health care,” said Howard Markel, professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, psychiatry, history, English language and literature, and health management and policy, and director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
CNN -
March 26, 2017
Research by Michael Bastedo, professor of education, shows that when college admissions officers have more information about the high schools attended by low-income applicants, those applicants are more likely to be admitted.
Inside Higher Education -
March 26, 2017
“Birthing and postpartum is wonderful and it’s all worth it, but at the same time it’s a painful event with a lot of sleep deprivation and massive hormonal changes that are absolutely mood-altering. It’s a treatable condition, not a character flaw,” said Maria Muzik, assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Women and Infants Mental Health Clinic.
The Huffington Post -
March 26, 2017
Paul Mohai, professor of natural resources and environment, says there is “a consistent pattern over a 30-year period of placing hazardous waste facilities in neighborhoods where poor people and people of color live.”
Quartz
