In the News
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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.
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 -
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.”
Reuters -
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 -
September 19, 2016
Anne Curzan, professor of linguistics, education, and English language and literature, was quoted in a story about the etymology of the term “first lady.”
Boston Globe -
September 18, 2016
Ben van der Pluijm, professor of geology and earth and environmental sciences, was interviewed about why it matters that humans are changing the planet’s geology.
Michigan Radio -
September 18, 2016
A small device implanted under the skin can improve the chance of breast cancer survival by catching cancer cells, slowing the spread of tumors in other organs and allowing time to intervene with surgery or other therapies, according to research by Lonnie Shea, professor of biomedical and chemical engineering, and Dr. Jacqueline Jeruss, associate professor of surgery, pathology and biomedical engineering.
The Times of India -
September 18, 2016
“Although we might treat the corporation with reverence as a social institution, like the church or the family, it is primarily an economic institution, and one whose time — at least in many domains of economic life — may have passed,” said Jerry Davis, professor of management and organizations, and sociology.
PBS NewsHour
