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March 30, 2017
“The fundamental challenge we now face is how to handle a setting where anybody can get their views disseminated without intermediaries to prevent the distribution. Somehow there still has to be some process of collectively coming to some agreement of what we are going to believe and what we think are consensual facts,” said Paul Resnick, professor of information, commenting on “fake news.”
BBC -
March 30, 2017
M.P. Narayanan, professor of finance, and Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor of business, were quoted in a story about the high-finance battle between General Motors and an influential Wall Street investor who wants to split GM stock into two classes.
USA Today -
March 29, 2017
“You would have to be very foolish — even if coal became economically competitive in the short term — to make an investment in a 30- or 40-year (plant) because four years from now we may have President Elizabeth Warren and all the environmental regulations are back on,” said Mark Barteau, director of the U-M Energy Institute and professor of chemical engineering.
The Associated Press -
March 29, 2017
Research by Terri Conley, associate professor of psychology and women’s studies, found that polyamorous relationships function just as well as monogamous ones.
Business Standard -
March 29, 2017
“Trump’s attempt to transpose his business experience directly to politics did not fare well. This is to be expected, because the games are different. You cannot play basketball with a tennis strategy. There’s a reason the games of politics and policy are played by professional politicians. Newcomers have a steep learning curve, as the president is discovering,” said George Tsebelis, professor of political science.
The Washington Post -
March 28, 2017
Comments by Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and environmental policy, were featured in an article about the Trump administration’s planned cuts in environmental monitoring.
Scientific American -
March 28, 2017
“We tend to think of prisoners as people who are all defined by the very worst thing they ever did. We want people to know something else about them, to give a fuller picture of who these people are in their human complexity,” said Ashley Lucas, associate professor of theatre and drama and the Residential College, commenting on the Prison Creative Arts Project currently featured on campus.
Michigan Radio -
March 28, 2017
While drug and alcohol problems are associated with a higher risk of suicide among military veterans, the increased danger is particularly high with opioid abuse, according to a study by Kipling Bohnert, assistant professor of psychiatry.
Reuters -
March 27, 2017
“One of the last important acts of the Obama administration was to reaffirm more stringent fuel-economy standards … but the recently announced review of those standards by the Trump administration is bad news for the prospects of reducing both transportation emissions and the country’s reliance on fossil fuels,” wrote research professor Michael Sivak and project manager Brandon Schoettle of the U-M Transportation Research Institute.
The New York Times -
March 27, 2017
“When we sleep well, we feel better — but there may also be more than that. If you’re irritable and having difficulty with interpersonal relationships, that could affect your well being. We also see changes in inflammatory markers with poor sleep, so people might actually physically feel worse when they’re not sleeping well,” said Cathy Goldstein, assistant professor of neurology.
Time
