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May 15, 2016
“In truth, everyday conversations and interactions not only help foster children’s cognitive and social skills, but they can also help maintain and strengthen the emotional ties between parent and child,” said Sandra Tang, research fellow at the Institute for Social Research.
Fortune -
May 15, 2016
Research by Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, associate professor of internal medicine, found that 5 percent of patients in intensive care spend weeks moving from one crisis to the next in a cascade of critical illness that sometimes has little connection to the original reason they were placed in the unit.
Michigan Radio -
May 12, 2016
Jessy Grizzle, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and mechanical engineering, and doctoral student Brent Griffin were quoted in a story about MARLO, their 3-D bipedal robot that can walk in any direction on uneven ground.
Gizmag -
May 12, 2016
“Even if products like e-cigarettes prove to impose a lasting risk on a small subset of kids … those kids will not experience the adverse consequences for the next four decades. During that period, more than 10 million adults will die prematurely from smoking,” said Kenneth Warner, professor of health management and policy.
The New York Times -
May 12, 2016
“While imaging sunspots was one of the first things that Galileo did when he started using the newly-invented telescope, it has taken more than 400 years for us to make a powerful-enough telescope that can image spots on stars beyond the sun,” said John Monnier, professor of astronomy.
Space Daily -
May 11, 2016
Matthew Shapiro, professor of economics, was quoted in a column about how Americans’ increased savings rate has put a drag on the economy.
The Washington Post -
May 11, 2016
“It brings mental health into the realm of commonly experienced conditions that people are generally motivated to do something about,” said Daniel Eisenberg, associate professor of health management and policy, regarding the Walgreens drugstore chain’s plans to make screening for mental health issues more widely available.
MarketWatch -
May 10, 2016
“If you have very little sleep, you can perform just as well as when you are drunk, so not getting much sleep is indeed a global crisis right now,” said Daniel Forger, professor of mathematics, and computational medicine and bioinformatics.
CBC (Canada) -
May 10, 2016
Dr. Julie Rosenthal, clinical instructor in ophthalmology and visual sciences, discussed the pros and cons of using a colon cancer drug to treat wet age-related macular degeneration, a disease that wreaks havoc on central vision.
National Public Radio -
May 10, 2016
Brent Wagner, associate professor of music, discussed the success of the Department of Musical Theatre, which he turned into a national powerhouse over the past 32 years.
The Detroit News
