Interdisciplinary team of researchers receive $3.4M convergence grant from NSF
January 9, 2020
ANN ARBOR – A group of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $3.4 million collaborative National Science Foundation convergence grant to develop and test methodologies for sampling, validating, and analyzing social media.A collaboration between U-M and Georgetown University,...
Grant will allow U-M researchers to study how poverty affects the brain
December 18, 2019
ANN ARBOR—Researchers know that adversity—especially poverty-related adversity—increases the risk for anxiety and depression.Now, University of Michigan researchers have won a $6.7 million grant to study how poverty-related adversity might affect the development of threat and...
Updated – Margaret Hicken comments on the long-term health effect of police shootings on black infants
December 12, 2019
An article in The Wired examines the stresses of structural racism affects health disparities among black women and infants, specifically police shootings. While the journal article on which this item was based has been retracted due to errors in the data set & analysis, Margaret Hicken had...
Kira Birditt’s study on tensions in the parent/adult child relationship cited in New York Times
December 12, 2019
In a New York Times article, Your Mom Is Destined to Annoy You, Jessica Grose cited Kira Birditt’s work on tensions in the parent/adult child relationship: “Research also shows that the connection between mothers and adult daughters is especially fraught; Dr. Birditt described it as...
Ken Langa is one of 22 UM scientists elected to AAAS
November 26, 2019
ANN ARBOR&The University of Michigan led the nation with 22 faculty members elected as 2019 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.The U-M researchers are among 443 newly elected fellows announced today by AAAS.The scientists and engineers were chosen as AAAS Fellows...
Kira Birditt provides some advice on defusing tension during the holidays
November 21, 2019
In an article in the New York Times, How to Defuse Tension at the Dinner Table During the Holidays, Kira Birditt has some advice: ''We all have tension, but it's how we cope with it that is most important…Take a pause before you react because oftentimes, we're re-enacting roles from our...
Jennifer Barber discusses ways in which pharmacies fall short in serving young Black women
November 20, 2019
While young Black women tend to live closer to pharmacies than young White women, those pharmacies tend to be open fewer hours, have fewer female pharmacists, and are less likely to provide easy access to condoms or information about birth control. Jennifer Barber says, “When women have more...
Stephen G. Schilling passed away November 5, 2019
November 15, 2019
Stephen G. Schilling, an Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, died suddenly and unexpectedly at his home in Ann Arbor on November 5, 2019. He was 61 years old.
After growing up in Bellmore, NY, and attending Chaminade HS on Long Island, Steve graduated with a B.A. from...
SRC Researchers at 2019 Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting
November 12, 2019
SRC faculty, staff and student papers and posters at the 2019 Gerontological Society of America Annual MeetingWednesday, November 1312:30pm-2:00pm, Ken Langa, Ryan McCammon, and Kara Zivin (Co-Authors), Changes in Health Care Utilization for Low-SES Adults Near Retirement After the ACA Medicaid...
Felix Kabo on the interplay between physical space and company culture
October 3, 2019
As Ford unveils its plans to remake its Dearborn campus, Felix Kabo says they would do well to make sure they are paying attention to the ways physical spaces impact teamwork: “Many organizations throw billions into building magnificent buildings, but they don't hear this very simple idea: If...
