In the News

  1. June 24, 2014

    Adam Pritchard, professor of law, spoke about a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives companies more ability to knock down securities-fraud lawsuits brought by investors.

    The Wall Street Journal
  2. June 24, 2014

    “When you say, ‘Line up here and you can scam the state,’ you shouldn’t be surprised if people line up and scam the state,” said John Chamberlin, professor emeritus of public policy, who blames lawmakers for not enacting tougher laws to prevent Michigan charter school officials from benefiting financially from insider relationships.

    Detroit Free Press
  3. June 24, 2014

    Michael Sivak, research professor at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, was interviewed about the steady rise in fuel efficiency of new vehicles in the United States.

    NBC News
  4. June 23, 2014

    Research by Susan Dynarski, professor of public policy, economics and education, was cited in an op-ed article about simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form.

    The New York Times
  5. June 23, 2014

    Nadine Sarter, professor of industrial and operations engineering, was interviewed about the role automation may have played in the Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco last summer.

    CNN
  6. June 23, 2014

    Michelle McClellan, assistant professor of history, was quoted in an article about the National Park Service’s efforts to seek places with a vital connection to gay and lesbian history to add to the National Register of Historic Places or the National Historic Landmark program.

    National Parks Magazine
  7. June 22, 2014

    Anna Stefanopoulou, professor of mechanical engineering, was interviewed about automotive ignition-switch safety issues.

    The New York Times
  8. June 22, 2014

    “People alive at the time may have denied it and tried not to be aware of it. Collective forgetting is the opposite of collective memory,” said Howard Schuman, professor emeritus of sociology, regarding the covered-up murders of three young civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

    The Atlantic
  9. June 22, 2014

    Brian Zikmund-Fisher, associate professor of health behavior and health education, and research associate professor of internal medicine, was quoted in a story about the lack of shared decision-making among doctors and patients regarding cancer screening.

    Chicago Tribune
  10. June 19, 2014

    “I’m English, and I’m in my 50s, and I remember, as a kid, soccer being a perfectly acceptable word in the U.K., without being this big no-no Americanism that it has become,” said Stefan Szymanski, professor of kinesiology.

    The New York Times