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Experts weigh in on whether they will sit and eat at a restaurant.
When a decision is made and people don’t get the outcome they want, they often tend to see it as unfair. Here’s why.
Rather than pump money into a broken system, people like Jeff Bezos and Charles Koch could use their money to help fix it – by insulating politics from money.
L’histoire montre que l’antiracisme d’aujourd’hui s’inscrit dans une tradition intellectuelle française et noire particulièrement hostile au régime de Vichy.
A survey suggests that most Americans feel that discussions about charitable support may interfere with the relationship between doctors and their patients.
New guidance from the CDC says that 15 minutes of exposure – regardless of whether that occurs at one time – can result in transmission of the coronavirus.
Hay diferentes circunstancias que impactan la capacidad de las mariposas para migrar como la agricultura, la tala, el cambio climático, entre otras.
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There’s an effective cure but homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in infections.
A sports management scholar weighs in on the potential consequences of holding Big Ten football games in the fall instead of waiting for a vaccine or better safety procedures.
Can a plan that brings together government and private landowners create enough habitat for monarch butterflies?
In a series of surveys, young people across the US described their thinking and behavior amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The disruption to K-12 education caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have major academic consequences, especially for low-income children.
Medical supply shortages during the pandemic revealed that US industries are unable to provide essential goods in a crisis. A return to domestic production would boost incomes and prepare us for the next crisis.
A researcher explains what it will take to make sure children are reasonably safe from catching the coronavirus aboard school buses.
With tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases on college campuses, a scientist asks: Why did colleges open in the first place?
The US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics, racism and sexism.
In reconverting Hagia Sophia to a mosque, Turkish officials have emphasized veiling of Christian icons to create a Muslim prayer space. Experts explain why the veiling is in fact a Byzantine practice.
As Russia fast tracks a coronavirus vaccine, scientists worry about skipped safety checks – and the potential fallout for trust in vaccines if something ends up going wrong.
The old-fashioned telephone – well, maybe not a rotary dial, but a phone nonetheless – became a way during the pandemic for patients to ‘see’ their doctors. Could this trend continue?
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Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
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Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Information, University of Michigan
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Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Digital Academic Initiatives (University of Michigan Law School) | Visiting Lecturer (University of Chicago Law School) | Visiting Lecturer (UCLA School of Law), University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Research Investigator at the Survey Research Center at the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan
