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April 9, 2024
“It’s purposefully, in my opinion, obfuscated from taxpayers,” said Judith Grant Long, professor of sports management and urban planning, on the lack of transparency by billionaire sports team owners who often understate costs and overstate job creation and sales tax revenue associated with the construction of new stadiums and arenas.
The Washington Post -
April 9, 2024
“I think traffic engineers tend to think traffic is like a liquid. If the pipes aren’t big enough, then it gets plugged up and overflows. The solution is building bigger pipes. But all of the evidence says that that’s not true, that instead (traffic) is much more like a gas, meaning the volume of traffic congestion will expand to take up the capacity allowed,” said Robert Goodspeed, associate professor of urban and regional planning.
Bloomberg -
April 8, 2024
Making exercise easier and more accessible is a smart way to boost activity levels, says Michelle Segar, associate research scientist at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender: “Look at it like a wine tasting. We experiment, we savor, we use self-awareness to say, ‘How does this taste? How does this feel? Do I like it?’”
The Washington Post -
April 8, 2024
“This is actually not just early detection, but prevention of cancer. And I don’t think we can stress enough how much oncologists would like to be put out of business,” said Elena Stoffel, associate professor of internal medicine, whose research team is conducting a statewide study in Michigan to help more people with an inherited risk for cancer get genetic testing.
WDIV/Detroit -
April 8, 2024
The insinuation calls upon a common stereotype “that not having enough food or struggling to buy food is an individual choice. And that’s absolutely not the case,” said Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutritional sciences, on remarks by Kellogg’s CEO Gary Plinick that families struggling to afford groceries should eat cereal for dinner.
WDET Radio -
April 5, 2024
“I think that the rise in threats to the judiciary is a direct consequence of the rhetoric that Donald Trump uses. When he goes after judges, he accuses them of engaging in election interference,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law. “The danger in this rhetoric is that someone out there who is perhaps somewhat unhinged will hear it as a call to action.”
The Washington Post -
April 5, 2024
“Our results show clearly that minimum wages do little harm to independent firms and even benefit some owners, while meaningfully increasing both the earnings and employment of young and low-earning workers. Of course, these gains to workers and owners are financed by consumers,” said Nirupama Rao, assistant professor of business economics and public policy.
Newsweek -
April 5, 2024
“What lies before us now is a grand opportunity. We must use our ability to borrow more cheaply to invest capital throughout the city in innovative ways that uplift the lives of those Detroiters that Moody’s mentions, but disregards,” wrote Chase Cantrell, lecturer in urban planning, after Detroit’s recent credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service improved to a level the city hasn’t seen in more than a decade.
Detroit Free Press -
April 4, 2024
“It’s very hard to economically convert propane into propylene. You need to heat that reaction to drive it, and standard methods require very high temperatures to produce enough propylene,” said Suljo Linic, professor of chemical engineering, whose team designed a chemical reactor that creates propylene, an important ingredient for plastics, adhesives, carpet fibers, household cleaners and more from natural gas.
DBusiness -
April 4, 2024
“We are like goldfish trying to understand the fishbowl from the inside,” said Sarah Spitzer, research fellow in climate and space sciences and engineering, whose team discovered an exit route through our heliosphere. “A future interstellar probe mission will be our first opportunity to really see our heliosphere, our home, from the outside, and to better understand its place in the local interstellar medium.”
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