In the News

  1. April 3, 2016

    Dr. A. Mark Fendrick, professor of internal medicine and health management and policy, and director of the U-M Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, was interviewed about a proposal to allow consumers to buy expensive drugs via installment loans.

    National Public Radio
  2. April 3, 2016

    Joan Kee, associate professor of history of art, was quoted in a story about the works of Korean monochrome artist Chung Sang-hwa.

    The Korea Times
  3. April 3, 2016

    “Overall, the numbers are still very small and it will be interesting to see where it goes in the next few years, but I believe it will never be a large percentage of women who opt for out-of-hospital birth,” said Ruth Zielinski, clinical associate professor of nursing.

    Reuters
  4. March 31, 2016

    Aaron Kall, director of debate, wrote an op-ed piece explaining how Donald Trump’s decision to skip a debate before the Utah caucus hurt him and helped GOP opponent Ted Cruz.

    The Salt Lake Tribune
  5. March 31, 2016

    “If our politicians are ‘bought and sold’ in the way the pundits might lead us to believe, why are they wasting their money on candidates with whom they already agree?” ask political science doctoral students Jesse Crosson and James Strickland.

    The Detroit News
  6. March 31, 2016

    Rita Loch-Caruso, professor of environmental health sciences, says that boiling water does not remove lead and that using hot water from the tap for food preparation or for drinking is ill-advised.

    U.S. News & World Report
  7. March 30, 2016

    Craig Smith, research investigator at the Center for Human Growth and Development and research fellow in psychology, penned a column about how children’s sense of fairness changes over time.

    Time
  8. March 30, 2016

    “We don’t respect sleep or circadian rhythms enough. It hasn’t caught on in our culture yet,” said Deirdre Conroy, associate professor of psychiatry.

    Huffington Post
  9. March 30, 2016

    Roland Zullo, associate research scientist at the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy, was interviewed about his report that reveals poorly run, unclean kitchens in Michigan prisons.

    Michigan Radio
  10. March 29, 2016

    Personality traits influence our reactions to written errors, such as typos and “grammos,” according to Julie Boland, professor of linguistics and psychology, and Robin Queen, professor of Germanic languages and literature, linguistics, and English language and literature.

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