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Michigan Minds episodes

April 22, 2020 Earth Day at 50: Dominic Bednar on Energy Poverty
“Energy poverty" is the inability of people to access the energy resources they need to live healthy lives. In this episode of Michigan Minds, Dominic Bednar, PhD candidate at the School for Environment and Sustainability, discusses his research on energy-vulnerable households and what programs can be implemented to address energy poverty.
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4 min
April 22, 2020 Earth Day at 50: Chanese Forte on Environmental Health
How can college students help slow climate change? In this episode of Michigan Minds, Chanese Forte, PhD candidate at the School of Public Health, discusses the roles all students can play to have an impact on environmental health—whether you are studying engineering, art, or anything in between.
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7 min
April 21, 2020 Earth Day at 50: Victor Li on the Built Environment
There are many conflicts between the built environment and the natural environment, according to Victor Li, professor at the College of Engineering. In this episode of Michigan Minds, Li explains how his research focuses on developing advanced materials to decrease the carbon footprint and harmonize the relationship between materials and the natural environment.
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19 min
April 21, 2020 Earth Day at 50: Andrew Gronewold on Water Resource Management
The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the Earth’s fresh, unfrozen surface water, but there aren’t many groups studying them. In this episode of Michigan Minds, Andrew Gronewold, professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability, explains the cutting-edge research he is conducting to understand the Great Lakes system.
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6 min
April 21, 2020 Earth Day at 50: Adam Simon on the Future of Energy Sources
Throughout history, society has changed the fossil fuel energy resources it relies on to provide power. In this episode of Michigan Minds, Adam Simon, professor at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, explains how he utilizes data forecasting to examine how society will transition to new energy resources and how we can build programs that ensure we can find those resources.
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7 min
April 20, 2020 The Societal Impacts of COVID-19
Experts from a wide array of U-M schools and colleges have provided informative analyses of areas affected by COVID-19 on the Michigan Minds podcast, and with thousands of downloads, the impact of this novel disease is clearly top-of-mind for many. publicengagement.umich.edu
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1 min
April 20, 2020 The Role of Financial Technology During COVID-19
In this episode of Michigan Minds, Adrienne Harris, a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School of Public Policy and a Gates Foundation Senior Research Fellow with the U-M Center on Finance, Law, and Policy, explains how financial services touch every part of the economy and how financial technology plays a role during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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12 min
April 16, 2020 How COVID-19 is Impacting the Student Achievement Gap
In this episode of Michigan Minds, Pamela Davis-Kean, professor of psychology at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, explains that with schools closed, it falls to parents to provide learning opportunities for their children, but many families are unequipped to do so.
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15 min
April 16, 2020 School Resources Lost During COVID-19
With schools closed for the remainder of the year due to the novel coronavirus, families are without many of the services and resources the schools normally provide. In this episode of Michigan Minds, Samantha Keppler, professor of technology and operations at Michigan Ross, discusses the other services schools provide beyond educating students.
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11 min
April 15, 2020 Poverty Solutions launches stimulus check website
U-M Poverty Solutions wants to make sure Michiganders receive their stimulus payments as soon as possible, so they’ve created the Coronavirus Stimulus Payment website. In this episode of Michigan Minds, H. Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions and the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, shares some of the important information on the new site.

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10 min

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Michigan Minds brings to life the wide-ranging faculty expertise at the University of Michigan. This series features quick yet informative analysis that provides unique perspectives on today’s top…