In the News
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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 -
August 20, 2025
Michigan’s Child Protective Services “is not designed to address the welfare of children or help families meet their concrete needs,” wrote Vivek Sankaran, clinical professor of law. “At its core, CPS is an investigative agency. It investigates families, looking for parental wrongdoing. If it doesn’t find any, it often closes its case. It is not a child welfare agency because ‘child welfare’ means more than the absence of abuse. It means addressing the actual needs of struggling families.”
Bridge Michigan -
August 20, 2025
“The evidence suggests that high-quality and well-designed child-centric media can support children’s learning,” said Tiffany Munzer, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics. “However, when we think about the apps online, sometimes the business model that creates revenue for certain digital media companies can make it trickier for kids to have these higher-quality experiences online.”
ABC News -
August 20, 2025
“Our findings show that older adults who use AI in their homes find it helpful for living independently and safely,” wrote Robin Brewer, associate professor of information, who found that 54% of older Americans say they trust artificial intelligence. “However, overtrust and mistrust of AI could be addressed with better training tools and policies to make risks more visible.”
Fast Company -
August 13, 2025
Outdoor air pollution kills more than 5 million people worldwide each year, of which 100,000 deaths happen in the United States, said Larry Junck, professor emeritus of neurology: “More deaths than opioids, more deaths than car accidents, more than gun violence, more than suicides. It’s big, and almost nobody knows about it.”
MLive -
August 13, 2025
Ukraine has “fought heroically” but has lost a large amount of territory and will likely lose more, said Ronald Suny, professor emeritus of history: “The whole situation in Ukraine is tragic. Ukraine didn’t want this war. It’s the Russians who started the war. They invaded because of the perceived danger they felt from NATO, from the United States, from the West, from the Ukrainians becoming a base for the West.”
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