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December 14, 2016
Research by Nancy Love, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and colleagues found that while point-of-use water filters clear lead from Flint drinking water, they may increase bacteria levels in the water — but may not pose a health risk.
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December 14, 2016
Daniel Keating, professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics, says it may be impossible to rehabilitate some teenage murderers, but it takes years to determine: “They may exist. But we wouldn’t know for sure who they are at that young an age.”
Michigan Radio -
December 14, 2016
“If you knew about the tweets beforehand, that would be insider trading. You could make small sums of money, I suppose, but if you are buying in large enough volume to move the market or make a lot of money, that would be enough to alert the surveillance units of the exchanges,” said Adam Pritchard, professor of law, on the impact that Donald Trump’s tweets about companies might have on stock prices.
The New York Times -
December 13, 2016
Victor Strecher, professor of health behavior and health education, says health insurers who encourage positive behaviors benefit from their members’ lower risk of stroke, heart attack and drug abuse.
Forbes -
December 13, 2016
“Ending Dodd-Frank would be deeply misguided and likely to re-create the very conditions that led to the 2008 financial crisis, shuttered American businesses, and cost millions of Americans their jobs. The financial sector will get a nice sugar high for a few years, and then crash the economy,” wrote Michael Barr, professor of law and public policy.
Fortune -
December 13, 2016
David Weir, director of the Health and Retirement Study at the Institute for Social Research, was quoted in a story about the decline of U.S. life expectancy — the first drop since 1993.
The Washington Post -
December 12, 2016
“(Black women) have been abandoned by those hallmark institutions of the American dream that once promised a gateway into the middle-class — good jobs, home ownership, and post-secondary education — in spite of a public narrative that perhaps America has heaped ‘too much’ help onto them,” wrote Kristin Seefeldt, assistant professor of social work and public policy.
Newsweek -
December 12, 2016
Comments by Clifford Lampe, associate professor of information, were featured in a story about Facebook and its willingness — or not — to open up its treasure trove of data to researchers in light of a slew of politically slanted fake news stories.
BuzzFeed News -
December 12, 2016
“If the drug companies think that they’re going to continue to have free rein to set and raise drug prices because of Trump, I think they’re deluding themselves. Nobody who voted for him is in favor of high drug prices,” said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business.
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December 11, 2016
“By encouraging men to cling to work that isn’t coming back, Trump is doing them a disservice. … If Trump really wants to get more Americans working, he’ll have to do something out of his comfort zone: make girly jobs appeal to manly men,” writes Betsey Stevenson, associate professor of economics and public policy.
Bloomberg
