In the News
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July 16, 2025
“Grocery stores who no longer get as much revenue from (food stamps) will cut back on staffing, hospitals without Medicaid may close or lay off health care workers. Those workers, in turn, will no longer spend as much at local restaurants, hardware stores, etc., prompting further job losses,” said Robert Manduca, assistant professor of sociology, about the toll President Trump’s tax and spending bill will have on local economies.
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July 16, 2025
“Looking at the sports landscape of Detroit, there’s a gap, and it’s time for us to reinsert gender empowerment into the city,” said Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management, about the return of women’s professional basketball to Detroit in 2029 — 20 years after the WNBA’s Detroit Shock relocated. “The team gave people good quality, excitement … a sense of belonging … and something to believe in, something that was larger than all of us.”
Michigan Public -
July 16, 2025
Emily Martin, professor of epidemiology, is concerned that the dismissal of the entire CDC panel of vaccine experts, and their replacement with known vaccine “skeptics” or outright opponents, puts America’s children at risk. “I worry what data they are going to use if they are not acknowledging the data that’s there and being generated. It is ready for them to review right now. This is an ongoing process that we’re always iterating on, every year, putting out vaccine data,” she said.
Salon -
July 9, 2025
“We can use this as a way to communicate that climate change is impacting the ecological systems and call for actions to mitigate climate change,” said Yiluan Song, fellow at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society, whose study with Kai Zhu, associate professor of sustainability and environment and of ecology and evolutionary biology, found that seasonal allergies caused by mold and other fungi now start an average of three weeks earlier than 20 years ago nationwide.
Bridge Michigan -
July 9, 2025
Paolo Pasquariello, professor of finance, attributes the decline of the dollar — suffering its worst start to a year in more than five decades — to “the recent erratic policymaking by U.S. authorities.” He says U.S. Treasuries are no longer viewed as quite as safe an asset, meaning investors are less likely to “park their money during normal times and especially during times of distress.”
ABC News -
July 9, 2025
Generative AI models are deployed in massive data centers, which use 4.4% of all energy in the U.S. — a number projected to grow to up to 12% by 2028. “Machine learning research has been driven by accuracy and performance. Energy has been the middle child that nobody wants to talk about,” said Mosharaf Chowdhury, associate professor of computer science and engineering.
Science News -
July 9, 2025
The Federal Reserve, under pressure from President Trump to restart interest rate cuts after an extended pause, said it’s prepared to lower borrowing costs if the labor market weakens. “The Fed is in a challenging position. They need to be really careful that what they’re seeing is actually weak labor demand and not contracting labor supply caused by Trump’s policies, and that’s tricky,” said Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics.
The New York Times -
July 9, 2025
Patriotism in America can carry many different meanings — from MAGA to resistance to the idea of capitalism at all costs — and brands need to be intentional about which groups they are targeting, said Marcus Collins, clinical assistant professor of marketing: “I think the idea of, let’s just grab on to Americanism and let people make their own judgment call or framing about what we mean when we say ‘America’ or ‘patriotism’ leaves you open to so much scrutiny.”
Business Insider -
July 2, 2025
“The efforts to characterize the nationwide injunctions that the Trump administration was subject to as similar to the ones the Biden administration faced is just a kind of false equivalency,” said Leah Litman, professor of law. “The nationwide injunctions that the Biden administration was subject to were disproportionately, overwhelmingly, from district judges in Texas — fewer than a handful came from anywhere outside of the Fifth Circuit and all of them came from Republican appointees.”
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July 2, 2025
“Routine is just as important during the summer as during the school year,” wrote Nasuh Malas, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics. “Structure, routine and predictable schedules are not just ways for parents to keep track of the hectic schedules of their children, but also have been demonstrated to improve sleep, physical health, mood, anxiety and academic success.”
Scientific American
