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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
September 20, 2016
Melissa Duhaime, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, was quoted in an article about plastic-eating organisms that may be able to fix the man-made problem of plastic pollution.
Salon -
September 20, 2016
Suicide-prevention efforts should include teaching children how to regulate their emotions and solve problems, said Dr. Bernard Biermann, assistant professor of psychiatry: “When it comes to school-aged children, it is important to recognize that impulsivity, combined with low frustration tolerance, can be dangerous.”
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September 19, 2016
Matthew Lassiter, associate professor of history, and urban and regional planning, says that during the 1990s the Democratic Party, which had once been proudly working-class and anti-corporate, began to woo upper-middle-class, white, suburban voters chiefly by de-emphasizing progressive economics.
The Atlantic
