In the News
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February 2, 2017
Manan Desai, assistant professor of American culture, was interviewed for a story about the 40th anniversary of Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior,” an iconic staple of literature classes that blends together stories from Chinese folklore, family secrets and an Asian-American childhood.
NBC News -
February 2, 2017
“White working-class politics don’t really fit into red and blue, conservative and liberal, but they really can be described more in terms of … what is good for their community and their family, and also what’s fair and what’s moral,” said Nadine Hubbs, professor of women’s studies and music.
The Christian Science Monitor -
February 2, 2017
Cliff Lampe, associate professor of information, says that fake news producers will be quick to adapt to ad restrictions by Google and Facebook: “I think this will work for the moment, but I believe that people are going to be able to come up with a workaround and be able to manipulate that attention market in the future.”
BBC News -
February 1, 2017
“Now more than ever, we must pay attention to what ISIS is trying to tell us through its visuals: namely, that it was born and bred into vengeance within the American military-penal complex,” wrote Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art.
Newsweek -
February 1, 2017
Scott Greer, associate professor of health management and policy, was quoted in a story about the political standoff over the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
U.S. News & World Report -
February 1, 2017
“Consumers expressed a higher level of confidence in January than any other time in the last dozen years. … Overall, the post-election surge in consumer confidence was based on political promises, and not, as yet, on economic outcomes,” said economist Richard Curtin, director of U-M’s Surveys of Consumers.
Business Insider -
January 31, 2017
“We know what happened when people slam doors shut to refugees. It means that innocent people whose lives are on the line ultimately perished. … That we would not read the tea leaves of history and understand that the people fleeing are the enemies of our enemy is beyond comprehension to me,” said James Hathaway, professor of law.
The Washington Post -
January 31, 2017
“It’s mind-boggling to think we can study the environment and ecosystems in the absence of chemicals, because they are everywhere now,” said Allen Burton, professor of natural resources and environment, and earth and environmental sciences, on the decline of federal funding for research on synthetic chemicals in the environment.
Science -
January 31, 2017
Research from Scott Atran, adjunct research scientist at the Institute for Social Research, and Robert Axelrod, professor of political science and public policy, suggests that engaging at-risk youth is a key tactic for understanding and preventing terrorism.
Michigan Radio -
January 30, 2017
“If the Trump administration won’t defend the rule, I want to stand alongside environmental groups and do what I can to defend (it),” said David Uhlmann, director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program, and who helped file a federal court brief defending an Obama administration clean-water rule that the new president and his Republican allies have targeted for elimination.
The Associated Press
