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April 4, 2018
“The Reciprocity Ring is built around asking for and giving help. It taps the collective knowledge, networks and energy of a group to meet each person’s request,” said Wayne Baker, professor of organization behavior and resource management, and sociology. It’s similar to the Kula Ring, a form of ritualized gift exchange used by New Guinea’s Tobriand Islanders.
Forbes -
April 4, 2018
Mousumi Banerjee, research professor of biostatistics at the School of Public Health and Comprehensive Cancer Center, grew up listening to the music of Indian songwriter, poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, and is working to make his music and lyrics more accessible to the world.
Michigan Radio -
April 3, 2018
“There shouldn’t be a reaction such as ‘Oh, goodie, it’s the lowest levels ever in Flint, what a wonderful thing, let’s just back off now.’ That would be just horrendous,” said Hernan Gomez, associate professor of emergency medicine, whose new study shows the amount of lead in the blood of Flint children dropped to a historic low in 2016.
The Detroit News -
April 3, 2018
William Frey, research professor at the Institute for Social Research’s Population Studies Center, was quoted in a story about the intent of several states to sue to block the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, arguing that the change would cause fewer Americans to be counted and violate the Constitution.
The New York Times -
April 3, 2018
“There is this enormous anxiety in the public health community about e-cigarettes leading kids to smoke — we don’t know that that’s true,” said Kenneth Warner, professor emeritus of health management and policy, who supports the FDA’s announcement to delay regulation of e-cigarettes, which can aid smokers looking to quit.
BuzzFeed News -
April 2, 2018
Su’ad Khabeer, associate professor of American culture, created a website that documents and analyzes the experience of black Muslim Americans, serving as a space for discussion and sharing of experiences — between members of the Muslim community, or people who just want to learn something about a community that may otherwise seem foreign to them.
Bustle -
April 2, 2018
Ella Atkins, professor of aerospace engineering, says M-Air, the university’s new outdoor drone lab, “will allow us to explore all the things we dream of doing with autonomous aerial vehicles … to research ways to surveil and collect data, possibly to forecast weather and earthquakes.”
The Detroit News -
April 2, 2018
“In some situations we run the risk of patients misinterpreting that there is no problem when there is one, or assuming there’s a problem when there isn’t. What we need to be focusing on is giving patients context,” said Brian Zikmund-Fisher, associate professor of health behavior and health education, on the confusion often caused by medical results released online.
The Washington Post -
April 1, 2018
Comments by Preeti Malani, professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases, were featured in an article about the great disparities in the deaths of Americans from infectious diseases, despite an overall decline, nationally.
UPI -
April 1, 2018
Even as the college-attendance gap between rich and poor has shrunk, the gap in the number of rich and poor college graduates has grown, according to research by Fabian Pfeffer, assistant professor of sociology and research assistant professor at the Institute for Social Research.
The New York Times
