In the News
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March 7, 2016
Professor Kent Berridge, Assistant Professor Ashley Gearhardt and doctoral student Michelle Joyner, all of the Department of Psychology, were quoted in a story about the effects of sugar on our brains.
Harper's Bazaar -
March 7, 2016
Comments by Dr. Scott Tomlins, assistant professor of pathology, were featured in an article about prostate cancer, screening, treatment choices and prevention among men in their 40s and early 50s.
U.S. News & World Report -
March 6, 2016
“American slavery was an exploitative economic system developed by the elite, but it depended on widespread ideologies of race and gender for its persistence and brutal effectiveness,” said Tiya Miles, professor of Afroamerican and African studies, American culture, history and women’s studies.
The New York Times -
March 6, 2016
Yesim Orhun, assistant professor of marketing, discussed her research that suggests that poor people pay more for store products on a per-unit basis.
Michigan Radio -
March 6, 2016
“The GRE adds information, but it is a noisy signal that says little about a student’s ability to be successful as a scholar. Yet in many programs it’s treated as a very significant piece of information. And unfortunately, requiring very high GRE scores for admissions undermines diversity,” said Julie Posselt, assistant professor of education.
The Atlantic -
February 25, 2016
Research by Andrew Marshall, associate professor of anthropology and environment, shows that nearly a third of wildlife studies in national parks and protected areas in Africa and Asia focus on gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans: “These are a small proportion of total biodiversity in the tropics, but they attract the lion’s share of research effort.”
Scientific American -
February 25, 2016
“PET scanning is a great technology and very effective, but using it (to screen for cancer recurrence) doesn’t seem to make any difference for cancers that have a relatively poor prognosis,” said Dr. Mark Healy, house officer in the Department of Surgery.
U.S. News & World Report -
February 25, 2016
A column by H.V. Jagadish, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, explains how encryption technology works and what the FBI is asking Apple to provide in regards to the locked iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist suspect Syed Rizwan Farook.
The Conversation -
February 24, 2016
Cleopatra Caldwell, professor of health behavior and health education, was quoted in a story about a U-M program in Chicago designed to strengthen the father-son bond and reduce risky youth behaviors.
The Associated Press -
February 24, 2016
The city of Flint has more than 8,000 lead service lines, but the makeup of another 13,000 service lines are still unknown, says Martin Kaufman, professor of earth and resource sciences at UM-Flint.
Detroit Free Press
