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June 4, 2025
Research by Lindsay Admon, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, shows a decline in the physical and mental health of mothers: “The pandemic might have given the decline a boost, but it isn’t the only contributing factor. There are certainly factors that have increasingly contributed to adverse maternal mental health over the last decade, including inflation, rising costs of child care, lack of parental leave.”
CBS News -
June 4, 2025
“It’s astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter’s physical state at the dawn of its existence,” said Fred Adams, professor of physics and astronomy, whose research suggests that Jupiter was somehow twice as large as it is now — big enough to fit 2,000 Earths inside of it, if it were hollow.
USA Today -
June 4, 2025
“Granting pardons or commuting sentences of public officials or other white-collar criminals convicted of fraud, tax evasion and other breaches of trust is likely to have the effect of normalizing nonviolent crimes. Of course, stealing by fraud is still stealing. It’s just that this is the way rich people do it,” said Barbara McQuade, professor from practice of law.
The New York Times -
May 28, 2025
“To control the political damage (of Medicaid cuts), Republicans are pursuing a strategy to reduce benefits, while pretending otherwise. They’ve mostly abandoned transparent cuts, such as eligibility changes or spending reductions to states … (instead) opting for opaque cuts, which will shed millions of eligible beneficiaries by overwhelming them with pointless paperwork and other needlessly complicated administrative requirements,” wrote Donald Moynihan and Pamela Herd, professors of public policy.
The New York Times -
May 28, 2025
“We’re not giving hormones to children. It was literally, ‘How do we follow the epidemiology and what we know are factors that lead to HIV acquisition and not being engaged in HIV treatment among these young people?’” said Kristi Gamarel, associate professor of health behavior and health equity, who along with Sari Reisner, associate professor of epidemiology, lost federal funding for research on HIV and transgender minority youth.
The Chronicle of Higher Education -
May 28, 2025
America’s most powerful laser, ZEUS, recently fired up to full strength, with peak power topping out at 2 petawatts — roughly 100 times the entire planet’s power output. “This milestone marks the beginning of experiments that move into unexplored territory for American high field science,” said Karl Krushelnick, professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences and director of the Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, where ZEUS is housed.
Gizmodo -
May 28, 2025
“High-quality connections” at work — brief, positive interactions between colleagues — foster happier workplaces, said Jane Dutton, professor emerita of management and organizations and of psychology: “This is such a simple idea, but I’ve been stunned at how powerful it is. It doesn’t cost money. It’s easier to actually change (that) than culture, which is really hard to change in an organization.”
The New York Times -
May 28, 2025
“The Trump administration is extremely effective at playing to the weaknesses of news organizations,” said Kenneth Lowande, associate professor of political science and ISR faculty associate. “They have written relentless, daily headlines that announce President Trump’s executive actions as if they are new laws. When readers see these, they give the president credit. They see it as an accomplishment.”
Salon -
May 21, 2025
Increased tariffs on cars, parts, aluminum and steel will reduce employment growth by 13,000 jobs over the next five years, but Michigan’s economy, overall, will still add jobs “at a moderate pace,” according to economists Gabriel Ehrlich and Yinuo Zhang of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “We believe the economic momentum was solid coming into this quarter. However, we’ll likely see tariffs drag on the economy soon,” Zhang said.
The Detroit News -
May 21, 2025
Medicaid expansion has saved 27,400 lives since 2010, including nearly 8,000 young adults: “From a cost-benefit point of view, there is a lot more benefit of saving someone who is 25 than 61, not because their life is of lesser value, but because there are a lot more years left of life to live,” said Sarah Miller, associate professor of business economics and public policy and of health management and policy.
The New York Times
