👀.Research Center for Group Dynamics Director Richard Gonzalez U-M ISR and Maggie Meyer U-M Psychology took a new approach to detecting racial bias in traffic searches: Examining false searches of innocent drivers. Read more from Michigan News Morgan Sherburne:
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A leap toward carbon neutrality, CO2 to methanol

Researchers at University of Michigan have developed a catalyst material known as cobalt phthalocyanine that converts carbon dioxide—a significant driver of climate change—into renewable fuels such as methanol.

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“There appears to be significant profits being made from shadow trading. The people doing it have a sense of entitlement or maybe just think, ‘I’m invincible,’” said Mihir Mehta, assistant professor Ross School of Business.
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WNBA players can earn 3 to 4 times her base salary by playing overseas when the four-month U.S. season ends says Ketra Armstrong, professor of sport management Michigan Kinesiology.
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Dollars from family members who work in the U.S. are a powerful economic engine for communities in El Salvador, says Dean Yang, professor of public policy Ford School and economics.
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“They became sort of an enclave within the city; in the critical version, turned their back on the existing city and made a new city — something that’s been called interior urbanism,” said John McMorrough UM Taubman College.
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“The fact that this policy failed to increase the number of patients with buprenorphine prescriptions... highlights the many barriers to buprenorphine prescribing...' says Thuy Nguyen Michigan Public Health ihpi.umich.edu/news/its-easie…

If their children don’t like what everyone else is eating, 3 in 5 parents will make something else for them, according to a Mott Children's Hospital poll by co-director Susan Woolford University of Michigan Medical School.
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Germans born over 7 decades found the older they get, the later they think old age begins. “...it’s comparing different people who were born at different times who’ve clearly gone through different historical changes...” says Jacqui Smith U-M Psychology
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Geoff Chatas, U-M executive vice president and CFO, discusses climate action, sustainability, and environmental justice as part of #UMichVision2034 in the latest Michigan Minds podcast. Listen via Michigan News: myumi.ch/G47ny

Missing link in species conservation: Pharmacists, chemists could turn tide on plant, animal extinction

As the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and extinction, one University of Michigan scientist has an urgent message: Chemists and…

On this episode of the Business and Society podcast, professors Chris Rider (chrisrider.bsky.social) and Stefan Szymanski from Michigan Kinesiology share their research and insights on the business of sports.

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The value of residential rooftop solar panels will increase by 19% by the year 2100 as home-cooling demands rise and a greater proportion of solar-generated electricity will be used to cool homes, according to a U-M study. More from Michigan News: myumi.ch/Er743

Timothy Cernak, a medicinal chemist from U-M Pharmacy and Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist from Michigan Public Health in the Detroit Free Press on FDA reports of avian flu particles in the U.S. milk supply:

Says Cernak: 'The avian influenza strains that were circulating late last year were pretty…

“President Trump was probably the first politician who openly encouraged this type of confrontational behavior. It’s the normalization of the rhetoric that seems to be a defining feature of this era,” said Javed Ali, associate professor Ford School.
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“I think that’s important for households to really get a good sense for the value of their solar ... think not just how valuable is it now but how valuable will it be over its lifetime,” said Michael Craig, assistant professor at U-M SEAS.
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'Assumptions about people who speak Andalusian Spanish stem from a combination of historical socioeconomic disparities and more,' said Nicholas Henriksen, associate professor of Spanish linguistics U-M College of LSA.
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“Prosecutors all over the country will see this as a new and viable form of liability. I think we should not underestimate the precedential power of this case...” said Ekow Yankah, professor at Michigan Law School.
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'A consistent influx of new nurses is undoubtedly needed to grow the nursing workforce, yet without correcting the issues nurses face ... it may not provide a long-term solution,' co-wrote Olga Yakusheva, professor at U-M School of Nursing.
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“...the menthol cigarette ban will be significantly less effective if the agency hasn’t provided for a legal, authorized market for alternative products...” said Clifford Douglas, director of the U-M Tobacco Research Network Michigan Public Health.
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