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  1. March 8, 2016

    Puneet Manchanda, professor of marketing, says Michigan is a ripe target for scammers because of its large populations of immigrants and the elderly.

    Detroit Free Press
  2. March 8, 2016

    “The state is a testing ground for issues that will be important in the fall. That includes manufacturing and trade, but also the pace and strength of the economic recovery, so a concern about the middle class plays very well with the Michigan electorate,” said Michael Traugott, professor emeritus of communication studies and political science.

    CBC (Canada)
  3. March 7, 2016

    Research by Dr. Jenny Radesky, assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, indicates that parents from low-income families are more likely to give mobile devices like phones and tablets to calm children with social and emotional difficulties.

    Tech Times
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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