Institute for Social Research
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November 18, 2014
Few students attend schools that meet federal nutrition standards
Implementing the latest government standards for food and beverages sold at U.S. schools would substantially improve school nutrition, according to a new U-M study.
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October 30, 2014
New U-M institute to measure impact of university research
U-M has launched a new initiative that will coordinate nationwide efforts to measure the economic and scientific impact of the more than $65 billion spent on research each year at the nation’s universities.
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October 21, 2014
U-M researchers discuss the changing American family
Most young Americans plan to get married someday, but more than 40 percent of births now occur outside marriage, and the American family itself has become far more diverse and varied.
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October 9, 2014
Grant supports U-M analysis of data from mobile health sensors
U-M will share a $10.8 million NIH grant aimed at developing innovative tools to gather, analyze and interpret health data generated by mobile and wearable sensors.
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October 7, 2014
Bloomberg to release U-M Surveys of Consumers starting in 2015
The university has established a new long-term partnership with Bloomberg to release the U-M Surveys of Consumers starting in January 2015 on a non-exclusive basis.
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September 17, 2014
Search advisory committee for next ISR director is named
Provost Martha Pollack has named an advisory committee to search for a new director of the Institute for Social Research.
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September 8, 2014
College students’ use of marijuana rising, some drugs declining
More college students nationwide have added illicit drugs, such as marijuana and amphetamines, to their back-to-school supply lists, U-M researchers say.
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June 19, 2014
ISR’s James Jackson to serve on NSF National Science Board
President Barack Obama has announced his intention to appoint ISR Director James Jackson to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation.
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June 9, 2014
How to give ourselves advice as well as we give it to others
Most of us find it easier to be wise about other people’s problems than our own. But a new study, conducted in part by a U-M social psychologist, identifies a simple way to close this gap.
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May 22, 2014
Growing inequalities make science more of a ‘winner takes all’ field
As new research documents growing inequalities in health and wealth, the gap between “haves” and “have-nots” is growing in the field of scientific research itself, a U-M sociologist says.
