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An academic suing the EPA over its decision to bar certain scientists from serving on advisory boards says the EPA needs to address legitimate criticisms to rebuild after Pruitt.
The Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals have been criticized roundly. Sometimes lost in the chorus of complaints is the depth of feeling that VA caregivers have for the veterans, a doctor writes.
Rob Porter's ex-wife Jennifer Willoughby wrote movingly about staying in what she described as an abusive relationship. Her experiences are echoed in studies of abused women across the country.
When thinking about regulating them, it's useful to know Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have some similarities. But generally they're not competing with each other – or anyone else.
Crime is way down in one Flint, Michigan, neighborhood, where locals have teamed up to revamp neglected public spaces. Here, why 'busy streets' can prevent violence and save cities money.
How Americans decide who can come into the country and who can stay reflects beliefs about what makes people worthy of opportunity.
The demographics, which include declining numbers of adult children free to step up and potentially fewer immigrants, suggest that this big problem society faces will get bigger.
Much like the printing press upset the social order centuries ago, the explosion of information online is challenging the role of scientists in society.
Were foreign diplomats and tourists attacked with a 'sonic weapon' – or was it something else? Ultrasound researchers demonstrate a rational, evidence-based explanation.
Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can't escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
Domestic violence services have rightly focused most attention on meeting survivors' needs. Increasingly, though, organizations are involving men and boys in domestic violence prevention.
Companies are flush with cash and profits and soon will have even more once the tax cut takes effect. So they can afford to be good again.
In a survey of 80 teens and college-aged Americans, most said they'd experienced physical or emotional distress before and after the 2016 presidential election.
Love may make the world go round, but sex keeps it going. There's been a lot of discussion in recent months about the horrors of bad sex. But it's important to remember that good sex is good for us.
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
These terms are often used interchangeably by the public, and though the concepts are overlapping, there are important distinctions.
French companies will no longer be 'forbidden to fail' and 'forbidden to succeed,' the French president tells the World Economic Forum.
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Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
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Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
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Senior Economist and Associate Director of Social Science and Policy, University of Michigan Energy Institute, University of Michigan
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John G. Searle Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Professor of Sociology, Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), University of Michigan
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Professor Emeritus of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor, Global Health Management and Policy and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Michigan
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Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
