In the News
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January 7, 2015
Ruth Scodel, professor of Greek and Latin, was quoted in a story about a Detroit-area man who invented a word for “nieces and nephews.”
USA Today -
January 7, 2015
Percy Bates, professor of education, said the Detroit Public Schools should revert to local control as the troubled district’s third emergency manager prepares to step down next week.
The Detroit News -
January 6, 2015
Kelly Askew, associate professor of anthropology and Afroamerican and African studies, was interviewed about U-M’s Leo Sarkisian Collection of African Music, one of the world’s most extensive and valuable collections of its kind.
Michigan Radio -
January 6, 2015
Comments by Susan Ashford, professor of management and organizations, were featured in an article about the positive effect a traditional office work environment has on employees — both professionally and personally — in an ever-growing entrepreneurial world.
New York Magazine -
January 6, 2015
Dr. Lisa Hammer, assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, spoke about Brazil’s extensive system of milk banks that distribute donated milk to newborns.
WKAR Radio -
January 5, 2015
“The Internet is not, nor will ever be, the primary, systematic cause of real political change any more than lanterns — ‘one if by land, two if by sea’ — were the primary cause of the American revolution,” said Kentaro Toyama, associate professor of information.
The Atlantic -
January 5, 2015
“Why would any international entrepreneur risk putting billions into a country where reliable information on the local economy is not available from the censored press, where the ruling officer corps claims to have cured AIDS, where television comedians are fined millions of dollars for jokes, and where foreign journalists are jailed for reporting the news?” said Juan Cole, professor of history, in a story on Egypt’s highly politicized judiciary and need for foreign investment.
The Daily Beast -
January 5, 2015
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, lecturer at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, spoke about the positive effects of cheaper oil: “I mean, oil is cut in half. You cannot believe, reading the financial press, that people are not just going crazy about what that’s going to do. That is an incredible boost.”
The Wall Street Journal -
December 14, 2014
Dr. John Ayanian, director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and colleagues found that elderly black Medicare enrollees are substantially less likely than their white counterparts to have adequate control of their blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.
The Atlantic -
December 14, 2014
Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business; Gretchen Spreitzer, professor of management and organizations; and Cindy K. Soo, assistant professor of finance; Wally Hopp, senior associate dean for faculty and research; and doctoral students Christina Zafeiridou and Cassandra R. Aceves, were interviewed for a story about the school’s efforts to increase the number of women faculty and doctoral students.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
