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October 22, 2018
“If you listen to other musical theater from the 1920s, you can hear how Yiddish musical theater is assimilating and drawing on its background in operetta, character songs, jazz elements and klezmer,” said Caroline Helton, associate professor of voice, describing the 1923 Yiddish operetta “Di goldene kale.”
The Jewish News -
October 22, 2018
“By creating standards of practice for unit-based (chief diversity officers), elevating our role in the field, and becoming recognized decision makers and institutional leaders, we will be able to forge a better path forward towards advancing DEI in higher education,” wrote Joana Dos Santos, the diversity, equity and inclusion specialist and DEI implementation lead at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education -
October 22, 2018
Sarah Miller, assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, says health insurance, particularly Medicaid, helps protect Americans from financial risk, but it could still prove insufficient for people with complex needs.
The New York Times -
October 21, 2018
“There’s a really big difference between getting one raise and having a long-term voice in the company. The stakes for the workers here may be just as significant,” said Kate Andrias, professor of law, commenting on wage increases for Amazon workers who, without a union, could see their pay hikes rescinded or benefits and stock options cut.
The Washington Post -
October 21, 2018
“Climate science isn’t saying human-caused climate change is affecting the number of storms, but rather the destructiveness of the storms once they form and make landfall. Warming is supercharging the strength of the storms, the storm surge, the rainfall intensity and the flooding,” said Jonathan Overpeck, professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability.
The Associated Press -
October 18, 2018
“With high-resolution cameras and all the other remote-sensing instruments at different wavelengths, it’s quite possible we’re going to find very new features that we have not thought about possibly existing on Europa,” said Xianzhe Jia, associate professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, who has found evidence of vapor plumes on Jupiter’s moon Europa.
The Atlantic -
October 18, 2018
Researchers agree that autonomous vehicles won’t make driving safer without testing on public roads, but that brings up other questions, says Matthew Johnson-Roberson, associate professor of engineering and co-director of the U-M Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles: “Should they all be allowed to be on public roads before passing some level of baseline performance? My personal advice is to treat the vehicles incredibly cautiously.”
Wired -
October 18, 2018
Molly Welch-Marahar, policy fellowship program manager for the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, says proposed regulations could jeopardize an invaluable component to the substance abuse treatment network — recovering addicts helping those in treatment: “There’s more and more support for the mode of peer support being critical in engaging people in recovering and ensuring long-term stability.”
Bridge Magazine -
October 18, 2018
Matt Bernhard, doctoral student in computer science and engineering, has shown in videos how he can defeat plastic security ties that counties across Michigan use to protect ballot bags, the cases that store voting machines and the ports that store the memory cards on optical-scan machines, which record paper ballots scanned into them.
Motherboard -
October 17, 2018
“They’re just computers at the end of the day. Often with voting machines, when you open it up, it’s not that different from a desktop PC or mobile device. The only difference is that it’s going to be 10 years out of date, or sometimes 20 years,” said J. Alex Halderman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
ABC News
