In the News
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September 25, 2016
Nadine Sarter, professor of operations and industrial engineering, says new technology that could render air traffic control towers obsolete is an idea that comes with many risks and challenges.
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September 25, 2016
“Today, people of color — if not the nation itself — are more willing, if not longing, to accept our particular way of being. … It’s an acceptance of who we are, our uniqueness and the knowledge that, yes, in that uniqueness we, too, are America,” says Craig Wilkins, lecturer in architecture and urban planning, in a commentary on the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The Detroit News -
September 25, 2016
Richard Janko, professor of classical studies, was interviewed for a story about a new computer technique that allows scholars to read a digital image of a charred ancient scroll discovered near the Dead Sea nearly half a century ago.
The New York Times -
September 22, 2016
Research by J. Todd Arnedt, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology, found that getting two extra hours of sleep made patients who took antidepressants twice as likely to have improved depression symptoms.
The Huffington Post -
September 22, 2016
Richard Primus, professor of law, says that a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of a Detroit teen claiming he can’t read because the public school system failed him has a reasonable chance of succeeding.
WDET -
September 22, 2016
Separate studies by Lutz Kilian, professor of economics, and Catharine Hausman, assistant professor of public policy, were cited in an article about the minimal impact low gas prices have had on the U.S. economy.
The Washington Post -
September 21, 2016
Dr. James Baker, director of the Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center and professor emeritus of internal medicine, was interviewed for a story about the EpiPen maker’s effort to get the lifesaving allergy treatment added to a federal list of preventive medical services.
The New York Times -
September 21, 2016
Sean Ahlquist, assistant professor of architecture, created a “sensory architecture installation” for this week’s Detroit Design Festival that allows autistic children to move freely and feel the comfort of being enclosed, but not be completely removed from the world around them.
Detroit Free Press -
September 21, 2016
Tamas Gombosi, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, and Gábor Tóth, research professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, developed a next-generation space-weather model for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to better predict how incoming solar storms could fry electrical power grids.
Nature -
September 20, 2016
Studies by Kenneth Warner, professor of health management and policy, and Richard Miech, research professor at the Institute for Social Research, were cited in a column about the link — or lack thereof — between vaping and smoking.
Forbes
