U-M research contributed nearly $100M to state’s economy in 2021
February 28, 2022
A new report from the Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS) shows that spending by the University of Michigan contributing nearly $100 million to large and small business statewide. Rebecca Cunningham, vice president for research and the William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor of...
ISR researchers named among “Top 2% Scientists”
February 7, 2022
ANN ARBOR – Stanford University named 42 ISR researchers on their “Top 2% Scientists” list, representing the most-cited scientists with career and single-year impact in various disciplines. The faculty researchers join over 180,000 scientists worldwide.ISR researchers that make...
Population Health and Aging in Rapidly Changing Contexts – an interview with researcher Amy Pienta
February 1, 2022
Photo: The official farewell to visiting researcher Amy Pienta and family from the Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal staff in Chitwan, Nepal.ANN ARBOR – Dr. Amy Pienta’s global work focuses on the demography of aging and retirement and health in later life, including...
Joelle Abramowitz discussed the future of abortion rights in Michigan
January 25, 2022
A new poll finds that Michiganders are more likely to be in favor of abortion rights than to oppose them. Michigan still has a law from 1931 that makes it a crime to assist a woman with an abortion unless doing so to save her life. If Roe v. Wade...
Neighborhoods play important role in older adults’ pandemic experience
January 25, 2022
ANN ARBOR—How have older adults adjusted to living under the pandemic? There’s no one-size-fits-all experience, according to University of Michigan researchers.In spring and summer 2020, U-M researchers Jessica Finlay and Lindsay Kobayashi launched a study to examine how the COVID-19...
Inflation is a bigger concern for American consumers than Omicron or Delta variants
January 20, 2022
Yahoo News reports that the Surveys of Consumers gauge of consumer sentiment averaged 70.3 percent over the past six months, down from 82.9 during the first half of 2021. Richard Curtin said, “While the Delta and Omicron variants certainly contributed to this downward shift, the decline was...
Pamela Davis-Kean discusses impact of pandemic-related learning loss
January 11, 2022
In an article on WXYZ Detroit, Pamela Davis-Kean discussed a United Nations backed report which finds pandemic-related school closures could cost children $17 trillion in lifetime income: “If we don’t overcome some of this, there are groups of people who probably will not be in the...
Michael Traugott discussed the fragility of American democracy on WYXZ’s Upfront
January 10, 2022
Michael Traugott joined WYXZ’s 7 Upfront to discuss the January 6 insurrection and its impact on the country:“The armed insurrection was unlike any kind of event that we’ve seen maybe since the War of 1812. And it demonstrated in a very painful way how fragile our democracy is....
Ken Langa comments on the FDA’s approval of a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s
December 21, 2021
A New York Times article discusses Biogen’s slashing of the price of its controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm and the F.D.A.’s approval of the drug even though a council of senior F.D.A. officials, against the advice of an advisory committee of outside experts and many...
Monitoring the Future study finds teen drug use dropped significantly in the past year
December 16, 2021
The latest Monitoring the Future survey showed teen drug use showed an historic decline over the last year. In the Michigan Radio report, Richard Miech says the decline may be due to the pandemic and, “This is a great natural experiment. On the one hand, there is the possibility that this...
