In the News
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August 27, 2025
“The dismantling of DEI and the failure of (the American Psychological Association) to offer a public condemnation of the removal of diversity from accreditation standards does not bode well for training sufficient numbers of Black and other minoritized psychologists. Similar to the backlash against affirmative action, the core of the anti-DEI backlash is rooted in anti-Blackness,” wrote Kevin Cokley, professor of psychology.
Psychology Today -
August 27, 2025
“It’s become increasingly hard to use the jobs report as a barometer of the health of the economy because of the role of immigration,” said Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics. “Right now the challenge is to figure out whether lower job growth reflects lower labor demand or lower labor supply because of the administration’s efforts to deport immigrants and discourage new immigrants.”
The New York Times -
August 26, 2025
“The federal statistical system is both large and complex, including hundreds of thousands of datasets that people depend on in many ways, from weather forecasts to local economic indicators. If the federal government continues to step back from its role as a provider of high-quality, trusted data, others — including state and local governments, academia, nonprofits and companies — may need to fill the gap by stepping up to collect it,” wrote research professor Margaret Levenstein and research assistant professor John Kubale of the Institute for Social Research.
The Conversation -
August 26, 2025
“There are a lot of people who find direct engagement with politics uncomfortable, or when they go out for an entertaining evening at the theater, they don’t want that to be part of it, (but) I believe that everything is political. … I actually think it’s the tool of the oppressor to say we need to ‘stay in our lanes.’ If you look at the history of the theater, it’s used as a tool for political and social education, for teaching morals,” said M. Candace Christensen, associate professor of social work.
Salt Lake City Weekly -
August 26, 2025
“When it comes to health care readiness or disaster preparedness and response, we are really reactive. We set up field hospitals, we provide immediate care and then leave communities to recover over time. And what happens in that immediate period is really just like a Band-Aid. And Band-Aids don’t stick,” said Sue Anne Bell, associate professor of nursing, who believes the goal should be to develop programs that provide health support long after the disasters pass.
National Public Radio -
August 25, 2025
“A lot of people say, ‘OK, cold extremes are fine. We are heating, so let’s just cool it a little bit.’ Maybe, but from the fish perspective, if you like to live at 20 degrees and suddenly the temperature dropped to 10 degrees, you’re still gonna die,” said Hazem Abdelhady, postdoc research fellow at the School for Environment and Sustainability, whose research shows that the Great Lakes have entered a new era of extreme temperatures at both ends of the thermometer.
Great Lakes Now -
August 25, 2025
“Efficiency in AI development, paired with open source sharing in the industry, can help empower startups and enterprise (machine learning) teams to compete with tech giants. Instead of wasting budget and human time on brute force efforts, businesses can reallocate resources and embrace innovation,” wrote Jason Corso, professor of robotics and of electrical engineering and computer science.
Forbes -
August 25, 2025
“It’s not like the Biden administration stopped permitting oil and gas development. There’s lots of oil and gas development. They just also tried to prioritize wind and solar. Here they’re saying, ‘Not only are we not going to prioritize (wind and solar), we’re going to try to shut it down entirely,’” said Alexandra Klass, professor of law, on the Trump administration’s misuse of federal environmental laws to curb wind and solar development across the U.S.
Grist -
August 20, 2025
Marginalized populations in U.S. counties with hog and cattle feeding operations are subject to higher air pollution, while lacking the health insurance necessary to treat related medical problems, said Joshua Newell and Benjamin Goldstein, professors of environment and sustainability. “If you’re a policymaker or government or community group or association concerned with these issues, (our mapping data) allows you to develop very targeted policies or measures,” Newell said.
The Hill -
August 20, 2025
“It’s the perfect application for an electric vehicle and it’s a particularly inefficient application for an internal combustion engine vehicle,” said Maxwell Woody, research assistant at the Center for Sustainable Systems, about Republican attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding from the U.S. Postal Service. CSS Director Greg Keoleian said, “The actions being taken or proposed will really reverse the decarbonization progress that has been made to date.”
The Associated Press
