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LSA Professor James Morrow Says North Korea May Be Testing Obama's Mettle
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
Determing Obama's response to missle test-fires may influence North Korea's future actions, he says.
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LSA Political Scientist Walter Mebane Says Election Fraud Is Likely In Iran's Election
- Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Mebane is one of several analysts who dug through vote totals from thousands of ballot boxes in Iran.
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LSA Psychologist Randolph Nesse Says Understanding Mild Depression Is A Key To Understanding Clinical Depression
- Friday, June 26, 2009
Just as physical pain stops you from doing damaging physical things, low mood stops you from doing damaging mental things, particularly pursuing unreachable goals, he says.
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LSA Mathematician Daniel Forger Is Developing Software To Ease Jet Lag
- Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Travelers would enter flight details into the program to receive advice on when to sleep, go outside or take supplements to ease jet lag, he says.
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LSA Historian Afshon Ostovar Says Basij Vigilantes In Iran Are Driven By Ideology
- Monday, June 22, 2009
But the fundamentalist ideology may not hold out if government crackdowns start to divide society, he says.
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LSA Psychologist Chris Peterson Says Happiness Is No Secret
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Peterson, co-founder of the field of positive psychology -the scientific study of what makes life worth living - says what you bring to a job can make you happy as a ditch digger or a Supreme Court justice.
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LSA Linguistics Professor Sarah Thomason Says Counting Words In a Language Can Be Difficult
- Friday, June 12, 2009
Determing whether English has one million words could be a fruitless endeavor, despite the recent hype, says Thomason, president of the Linguistic Society of America.
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LSA Alumna Martha L. Minow Has Been Appointed As Dean Of Harvard Law School
- Friday, June 12, 2009
In 2002 Minow predicted her former law student Barack Obama would someday become president.
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LSA Archaeologist John O'Shea Says Ancient Hunting Camps May Have Been Found In Lake Huron
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
One of the structures found in the lake may be drive lanes that guided caribou to hunters, O'Shea says.
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LSA Biologist Knute Nadelhoffer Says America Needs Immediate Action To Fight Climate Change
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Controlling carbon emissions is critical to our economy and energy future, Nadelhoffer says.
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LSA Students Christopher And Christian Love Mentor Children As Big Brothers
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Detroit twins overcame tough odds to succeed at U-M and serve as mentors in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit.
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LSA History Professor Juan Cole Says President Obama Must Show Muslims That America Respects Their Sovereignty
- Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Obama must also help establish a Palestinian state, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and withdraw troops from Iraq by the end of his first term, Cole says.
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LSA Alumnus Louis Susman Is Appointed As U.S. Ambassador to England
- Friday, May 29, 2009
Susman, a retired vice chairman of Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking, was a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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LSA Poet Keith Taylor Says His Book Sales Are Up Despite the Recession
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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LSA English Professor Eric Rabkin Says Ursula Le Guin's Writings Were Influenced By Her Exposure to Alien Cultures
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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LSA Psychologist Richard Nisbett Says Learning Styles Differ Between Asian And Western Cultures
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
East Asians see things in context while Westerners focus on the point at hand, Nisbett says. East Asians want to establish business relationships while Westerners keep business connections at a distance.
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LSA Psychologist David E. Meyer Says Social Media Foster Personal Communication And Addictive Multitasking
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Excessive multitasking can lead to chronic stress, with potential damage to cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems, he says.
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LSA Art Historian Joan Kee Says Chinese Painter Zao Wou-ki Framed His Paintings In Terms That Reached Audiences
- Thursday, May 21, 2009
Zao, born in China in 1921 but living in France since 1948, was one of the few Chinese artists to reach a level of commercial success that anticipated the current market for contemporary Chinese art, Kee says.
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