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April 17, 2024
“Students and families from Michigan and around the world understand the profound impact and value of a University of Michigan education,” said Adele Brumfield, vice provost for enrollment management, after the university received more than 105,000 applications for fall 2024 — an all-time high and 11% jump from the year before. Erica Sanders, executive director of undergraduate admission, said, “Our aim is to attract and develop a dynamic and diverse incoming undergraduate class by … highlighting the impact a U-M education can have on future achievements.”
MLive -
April 17, 2024
“We’re detecting a lot of these chemicals in people’s bodies and we don’t really know the health effects. It’s pretty early stages in understanding this,” said Justin Colacino, associate professor of environmental health sciences and nutritional sciences, on the potential for harm associated with fragrance ingredients in personal care and beauty products.
Bloomberg -
April 17, 2024
The United States must lead in the global transition to electric vehicles or there will be consequences, says Alan Taub, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Electric Vehicle Center: “It is moving at a pace that’s faster than the automotive industry has ever experienced. … If we don’t target to lead in it, we’re putting the entire domestic automotive industry at risk.”
U.S. News & World Report -
April 16, 2024
Ariella Shikanov, associate professor of biomedical engineering, working with Jun Li, a professor of human genetics, helped create a comprehensive “atlas” of the cells in the human ovary.. “This new data allows us to start building our understanding of what makes a good egg — what determines which follicle is going to grow, ovulate, be fertilized and become a baby,” Shikanov said.
LiveScience -
April 16, 2024
A new federal rule mandates that people who sell firearms online or at gun shows conduct background checks on their customers. “We expect that when people have to do this, have to go through that background check, it (will) make people less likely to try to buy a gun by lying,” said April Zeoli, associate professor at the School of Public Health and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.
WXMI/Grand Rapids -
April 16, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice agreed with a Wisconsin tribe that Enbridge is trespassing on its lands by operating an oil and gas pipeline there, but stopped short of telling the Canadian company to move. “From the point of view of the tribe and its allies, this is incredibly concerning that the U.S. is not advocating for the shutdown or removal of that pipeline,” said Matthew Fletcher, professor of law and of American culture.
Grist -
April 15, 2024
About 60% of people ages 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care center or retail health clinic in the past two years, according to U-M’s National Poll on Healthy Aging. “These kinds of clinics, which typically offer walk-in convenience, expanded hours and self-scheduling of appointments … (have) transformed the American health care landscape,” said Jeffrey Kullgren, associate professor of internal medicine.
U.S. News & World Report -
April 15, 2024
Politics is the key factor behind universal injunctions by federal district courts that apply to everyone in the country, says Nicholas Bagley, professor of law: “It cannot help but call the judiciary into disrepute. It doesn’t look like they’re applying the law in a clear way. It will erode the judiciary’s legitimacy, no question about it.”
CBS News -
April 15, 2024
“It’s not just that Indigenous people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The source of climate change vulnerability is that racism, colonialism and capitalism have rendered tribes in a land situation where there are not a lot of options to adapt,” said Kyle Whyte, professor of environment and sustainability.
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April 12, 2024
Students who ride newer, cleaner-air buses perform better in school, according to research by Meredith Pedde, assistant research scientist in epidemiology, and Sara Adar, associate professor of public health. “We believe these results reflect the fact that when kids are riding buses with less pollution, their health is better which leads to them missing less school and learning more in their classes,” Pedde said.
Toledo Blade
